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Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun, 1851. oil on fabric.
oil on fabric · Framed: 143 x 165 x 13 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun
- Artist
- Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 143 x 165 x 13 cm (56 5/16 x 64 15/16 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 109.1 x 130.2 cm (42 15/16 x 51 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1812–1867
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.




