The Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has acquired a meticulously-rendered rural landscape by 19th-c. artist Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau, one of the key proponents of the Barbizon School. "Farm in the Landes" has until now been held in private collections and has not been widely exhibited since 1946. Rousseau worked on the painting for 25 years, and thought it one of his best. He wrote, it “is for me the object of serious thought...".