The Forest in Winter at Sunset

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.