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Théodore Rousseau

The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest

1852–54
Oil on wood
80 × 121.9 cm (31.5 × 48 in)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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