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Rodolphe Bresdin

The Forest of Fontainebleau

1880
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
20.2 × 14.8 cm (8 × 5.8 in)

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This haunting etching presents an altogether different vision of the Fontainebleau forest than that portrayed by the Barbizon painters.

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