Victor Rousseau, Landscape with house, Circa 1910

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Artist: Victor Rousseau (Belgian, 1865-1954)
Title: Landscape with house
Year: Circa 1910
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Board size: 6 x … Read more Artist: Victor Rousseau (Belgian, 1865-1954)
Title: Landscape with house
Year: Circa 1910
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Board size: 6 x 7.85 inches
Signature: Signed lower right by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Framed in wooden gold frame
Description: The size including frame is 13 x 15 inches

About the artist.
Victor Rousseau (Feluy, 16 December 1865 – Vorst, 17 March 1954) was a Belgian sculptor, medalist and painter.
Rousseau was of Walloon heritage and descended from a line of stonemasons. He began carving stone at age 11, working at the site of the Law Courts of Brussels, designed by architect Joseph Poelaert. He later apprenticed under sculptor Georges Houtstont, and took classes at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
A winning competition entry for the Prix Godecharle in 1890 gave Rousseau the chance to travel in England, Italy, and two full years in France, after which he returned to the atelier of Belgian sculptor and teacher Charles van der Stappen for another two years, 1887 through 1889. Rousseau himself served as professor of sculpture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts from 1901 through 1919, and as director from 1919 through 1922 (succeeding van der Stappen in that role) and then again from 1931 through 1935.
Honours
1919 : Commander of the Order of the Crown.[1]
Work
Le Hibou and Le Perroquet at the Botanical Garden of Brussels, circa 1898
monument panel to Charles Buls and the builders of the Grand Place, with architect Victor Horta, 1899
corner relief panel at the Art Nouveau Hôtel Hannon, for architect Jules Brunfaut, Saint-Gilles, Belgium, 1903
allegorical statues for the Pont de Fragnée, Liege, circa 1904
Anglo-Belgian Memorial, Victoria Embankment, London, 1920, with British architect Sir Reginald Blomfield
monumental figural group Maturity, Montagne duParc, Brussels, 1922
bust of Albert Giraud, Josaphat Park, Schaerbeek
The Work of Victor Rousseau is held in collections and museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian museum. See less