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Landscape in the Dauphiné, 1846

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 55.5 x 76.5 cm
  • Inv. 1921-B

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Théodore Fourmois was one of the first painters in Belgium to oppose academic landscape painting. His aim was to fully integrate man and animals into the landscape and he attached great importance to painting in and on the basis of nature. Although his work is inspired by nature, it is also based on fantasy. This artist is therefore still a romantic painter, but his direct approach to nature makes him one of the pioneers of 19th-century Belgian landscape painting. The monumental trees in Landscape in the Dauphiné are very reminiscent of the work of 17th-century Dutch landscape painters.

Artist

Théodore Fourmois RKD
Presles 1814 - Ixelles 1871
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Title Landscape in the Dauphiné
Date 1846
Period 19th century
Location Dauphiné TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year bottom left: T. Fourmois 46
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1921-B
Acquisition credit gift
The Friends of the Museum
Ghent
1921
Current whereabouts Work on loan
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/869/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015636 landscapes AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT
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22C1 natural light Iconclass
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22C8 shadow Iconclass
24A8 sunlight Iconclass
24A81 sunbeams Iconclass
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25G3 trees Iconclass
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26A clouds Iconclass
300015636 landscapes AAT
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
41A17 farm (building) Iconclass
41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass
46A222 rural life Iconclass
46AA14 farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife Iconclass
46C11 road, path Iconclass
47I2112 cow Iconclass
47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass
61D(DAUPHINÉ) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (DAUPHINÉ) Iconclass
61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 68)
'Fourmois, sa vie, son oeuvre', in: Cahier des Arts. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 2234-2244)
200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 18-19, 269 (ill. 70))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 156-157 (ill.))
Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 66 (ill.))
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