Theodore Rousseau art links 

Théodore Rousseau: Panoramic View of the Ile-de-France, ca.1830
Photograph by Cliff, Creative Commons licensed

Original works by Théodore Rousseau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works by Theodore Rousseau

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
7 works by Rousseau

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Forest in Boisrémond; Cottage, 1842
River Loing Bordering Forest, 1864

Louvre Museum Database, Paris
8 paintings

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)   NEW!  
You have to skip ahead to about page 16 before coming across many works on paper by Théodore Rousseau

Theodore Rousseau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
9 paintings

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
10 works by Théodore Rousseau online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Cherry Tree at La Plante-à-Biau, cliche-verre print

Theodore Rousseau at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Theodore Rousseau

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Pool, ca.1850

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  

National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
Une avenue, forêt de l'Isle-Adam, 1849

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  
2 works by Théodore Rousseau online

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Landscape Study ("La Source")

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Forest of Fontainebleau

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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The Plain At Plante-a-Biau

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Wooded Riverbank with a Large Isolated Tree, pen and ink, ca.1860

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
A Road in the Jura

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
Landscape study

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Charcoal Burner's Hut (La Hutte des Charbonniers), ca.1850

Frick Collection, New York City
The Village of Becquigny, ca.1857

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
The Oaks, 1852

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Theodore Rousseau in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Wooded Landscape

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Numerous works, mostly drawings

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)  
Landscape

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Norwich Museums, England

Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Théodore Rousseau online

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Regional Art Gallery in Liberec, Czech Republic
Landscape with a Swamp

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online

San Diego Museum of Art, California
Landscape

Southampton City Art Gallery, England

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)   NEW!  

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark   NEW!
Sunset in the Forest, 1856-58

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
The Forest of Fontainebleau: Morning, ca.1850

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)   NEW!

 

Theodore Rousseau in the Art Renewal Center

Theodore Rousseau in the Artchive  

Theodore Rousseau at CGFA  

Theodore Rousseau at The Athenaeum  
43 works online by Rousseau

Theodore Rousseau in the Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Humanities Web  

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site   NEW!

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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The Modernist Journals Project

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Theodore Rousseau  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Article discussing Rousseau's Forest of Fontainebleau, ca.1849-55

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Article discussing Rousseau's View of Mont Blanc, Seen from La Faucille, ca.1863-67

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!