Landscape after a Storm

Rousseau’s production was influenced by Netherlandish landscape painting and the paintings of the Englishmen Bonnington and Constable. Rousseau’s new perception of nature, of which he was one of the prominent protagonists, associated him with the Barbizon School of painters in France. He sought to render specific landscape scenery in a specific moment of the day; therefore, he executed them en plein air. His Landscape after a Storm a rocky mountain range and a path flanked by trees shows the outcome of his effort with the greatest extent of objectivity, without additional meanings.