Copy of La Ferme de Barbizon by Théodore Rousseau
Date1901
Artist
George Thompson Hobbs
(American architect and artist, 1846–1929)
Original created by
Théodore Rousseau
(French painter, 1812–1867)
MediumOil on wood panel
Dimensions14 5/8 x 24 in. (37.1 x 61 cm)
frame: 27 × 36 1/2 in. (68.6 × 92.7 cm)
frame: 27 × 36 1/2 in. (68.6 × 92.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Brereton Sturtevant, 1970
Object number1970-19
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis work attests to the taste in America for paintings by the French artists of the Barbizon School. Hobbs was commissioned to copy this work, then owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, by a prominent physician and patron of the arts in Philadelphia.