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Line 1: {{short description\|French painter (1812–1867)}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox artist \| name = Théodore Rousseau \| image = Theodore Rousseau.jpg ~~\| image_size = 250~~ \| alt = Photo of Theodore Rousseau \| caption = \| birth_name = \| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1812\|04\|15\|df=y}} \| birth_place = Paris, France \| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1867\|12\|22\|1812\|04\|15\|df=y}} \| death_place = [[Barbizon]], France ~~\| nationality = French~~ \| spouse = \| field = Line 24 ⟶ 23: \| bgcolour = }} '''Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau''' (~~April~~ 15, April 1812{{snd}}~~December~~ 22, December 1867) was a French painter of the [[Barbizon school]]. [[Image:Chênes Apremont by Rousseau Louvre RF1447 n1.jpg\|thumb\|''Les chênes d'[[Forest of Fontainebleau\|Apremont]]'' (Oak Grove, Apremont), ~~1850-1852~~1850–1852]] ==Life== Line 55 ⟶ 54: Rousseau then suffered a series of misfortunes. His wife's mental health had worsened; his aged father became dependent on him for pecuniary assistance; his patrons were few. Moreover, while he was temporarily absent with his ill wife, a youth living in his home (a friend of his family) committed suicide in his Barbizon cottage. When he visited the Alps in 1863, making sketches of [[Mont Blanc]], he became dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs; and when he returned to Barbizon he suffered from [[insomnia]] and became gradually weakened.{{sfn\|Thomson\|1911}} He was elected president of the fine-art jury for the 1867 Exposition; however, his disappointment at being denied the better awards may have affected his health, for in August he became paralyzed. He recovered slightly, but was again attacked several times during the autumn. In November his condition worsened, and he died in the presence of his lifelong friend, [[Jean-François Millet]], on ~~December~~ 22, December 1867. Millet, the peasant painter, for whom Rousseau had the greatest regard, had been much with him during the last years of his life, and at his death Millet assumed charge of Rousseau's ill wife.{{sfn\|Thomson\|1911}} Rousseau's other friend and neighbor, [[Jules Dupré]], himself an eminent landscape painter of Barbizon, relates the difficulty Rousseau experienced in knowing when his picture was finished, and how he, Dupré, would sometimes take away from the studio some canvas on which Rousseau was laboring too long. Rousseau was a good friend to Diaz, teaching him how to paint trees, for until a certain point in his career Diaz considered he could only paint figures. Line 106 ⟶ 105: [[Category:French male painters]] [[Category:French Realist painters]] [[Category:~~Landscape~~French landscape artists]] [[Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour]] [[Category:19th-century French male artists]]