Landscapes & Adventures
Forest of Fontainebleau
Original title: Forêt de Fontainebleau
Heathland at sunset, fallen trunks, pines in black silhouette.
This is not the forest of the postcards. It is a clearing of dead wood, heather and moss under a sky where yellow breaks through grey-blue, with one twisted pine leaning in from the left. We are on Barbizon ground, the country of Corot and Rousseau, but at the hour when the painters have folded their easels and gone in.
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 92 × 73 cm
- Collection
- Landscapes & Adventures
- Status
- Unique piece
About the series
The Adventures are off-road escapes — fords, forest tracks, deep woods — shown alongside landscapes painted for their own sake: Corsica, the Forest of Fontainebleau. The format stays that of the easel, to keep the painting at eye level.