The method of the viewer’s entrance into the landscape composition space is characteristic of many paintings of Theodore Rousseau. In his painting In the Forest of Fontainebleau, with the motif of a woman walking with a child, it is as if we find ourselves in the shadow of the trees, while sensing the special poetry of the forest all around us. The artist achieves exceptional expressiveness in his depiction of the light’s effect as it penetrates the thick foliage.