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Simon Kelly's consummate study of Theodore Rousseau draws the reader deeply into the complex lived experience of this adventurous, under-examined painter of the French landscape, bringing to light as never before an entire world of making, selling and viewing art in mid-nineteenth-century France, just as the stage was set for the avant-gardes to come. * Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA * Kelly's book makes an important contribution, both to the history of French landscape painting and to recent scholarship on the modern art market. Far from being le grand refuse, Rousseau emerges as one of the most commercially shrewd artists of his generation, who used pioneering tactics to promote his often challenging and experimental style of painting. Unorthodox and independent-minded, he became an art market innovator, anticipating some of the strategies employed by the Impressionists. Written with a sensitive and curatorial eye, this fascinating book is based on extensive archival research and includes extracts from stockbooks and proces-verbaux, as well as letters from Rousseau to his patrons, dealers, critics and fellow artists. * Frances Fowle, Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, University of Edinburgh and Senior Curator of French Art, National Galleries of Scotland, UK *

Simon Kelly’s consummate study of Théodore Rousseau draws the reader deeply into the complex lived experience of this adventurous, under-examined painter of the French landscape, bringing to light as never before an entire world of making, selling and viewing art in mid-nineteenth-century France, just as the stage was set for the avant-gardes to come. * Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA * Kelly’s book makes an important contribution, both to the history of French landscape painting and to recent scholarship on the modern art market. Far from being le grand refusé, Rousseau emerges as one of the most commercially shrewd artists of his generation, who used pioneering tactics to promote his often challenging and experimental style of painting. Unorthodox and independent-minded, he became an art market innovator, anticipating some of the strategies employed by the Impressionists. Written with a sensitive and curatorial eye, this fascinating book is based on extensive archival research and includes extracts from stockbooks and procès-verbaux, as well as letters from Rousseau to his patrons, dealers, critics and fellow artists. * Frances Fowle, Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, University of Edinburgh and Senior Curator of French Art, National Galleries of Scotland, UK *

Simon Kelly's consummate study of Theodore Rousseau draws the reader deeply into the complex lived experience of this adventurous, under-examined painter of the French landscape, bringing to light as never before an entire world of making, selling and viewing art in mid-nineteenth-century France, just as the stage was set for the avant-gardes to come. * Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA *

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Simon Kelly is Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Saint Louis Art Museum, USA.

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