- Artist
- Théodore Rousseau
- Year
- ca. 1846–67
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 64 x 102 3/8 in. (162.6 x 260 cm)
Bare trunks rise from a frozen woodland floor as the low sun breaks through at day’s end. Painted over two decades, The Forest in Winter at Sunset is among the grandest and most somber statements of the Barbizon School’s leading landscape painter.