The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest, 1852?54, Oil on wood, 31 1/2 x 48 in. (80 x 121. 9 cm), Paintings, Theodore Rousseau (French, Paris 1812?1867 Barbizon), As related by Rousseau's friend and biographer Alfred Sensier, this painting represents part of the woods at Fontainebleau where the trees-some hundreds of years old-were vulnerable to harvest, a practice the artist bitterly opposed