Théodore Fourmois was one of the first painters in Belgium to oppose academic landscape painting. His aim was to fully integrate man and animals into the landscape and he attached great importance to painting in and on the basis of nature. Although his work is inspired by nature, it is also based on fantasy. This artist is therefore still a romantic painter, but his direct approach to nature makes him one of the pioneers of 19th-century Belgian landscape painting. The monumental trees in Landscape in the Dauphiné are very reminiscent of the work of 17th-century Dutch landscape painters.
| Artist |
Théodore Fourmois
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| Title | Landscape in the Dauphiné |
| Date | 1846 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Dauphiné TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: T. Fourmois 46 |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1921-B |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1921 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1921-B |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/869/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
25H
landscapes
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300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C
light
Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C11 rays of natural light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 24A8 sunlight Iconclass 24A81 sunbeams Iconclass 25F animals Iconclass 25F2 mammals Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H landscapes Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass 46A222 rural life Iconclass 46AA14 farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife Iconclass 46C11 road, path Iconclass 47I2112 cow Iconclass 47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass 61D(DAUPHINÉ) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (DAUPHINÉ) Iconclass 61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 68) |
| 'Fourmois, sa vie, son oeuvre', in: Cahier des Arts. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 2234-2244) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 18-19, 269 (ill. 70)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 156-157 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 66 (ill.)) |
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