Art, literature & history
Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau
1848
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil on paper over black chalk or conté crayon, laid down on canvas, on stretcher
- Dimensions
- overall: 32.2 x 45.9 cm (12 11/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2003.70.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Théodore Rousseau. Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau. Théodore Rousseau; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th%C3%A9odore_Rousseau,_Sunset_from_the_Forest_of_Fontainebleau,_1848,_NGA_127430.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau — Théodore Rousseau. 1848.
Medium: oil on paper over black chalk or conté crayon, laid down on canvas, on stretcher .
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 32.2 x 45.9 cm (12 11/16 x 18 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2003.70.1. Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.