Théodore Fourmois was a Belgian landscape

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

 painter

Painting

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 and printmaker.

Théodore Fourmois learned drawing in the lithographic's

Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

 workshop of Antoine Dewasme-Pletinckx in Brussels

Brussels

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. He first exposed his works in this city in 1836. He began painting landscapes of Ardennes

Ardennes

The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...

 and Campine

Campine

The Campine is a natural region situated chiefly in north-eastern Belgium and parts of the south-western Netherlands which once consisted mainly of extensive moors, tracts of sandy heath, and wetlands...

, several studies and panoramic views while traveling in Dauphiné

Dauphiné

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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He took part, in 1855 and 1867, at the Exposition Universelle

Exposition Universelle (1855)

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 in Paris

Paris

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. Many of his works are exposed in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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