Henri Rousseau

The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre



Henri Rousseau - The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre



Henri Rousseau
The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre
ca. 1908-09
54.6 x 45.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: H. Rousseau
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Marshall Field, 1939


Provenance

?private collection, France, 1901
with Ambroise Vollard, Paris, from 1909, purchased from the artist 23 February
?Paul Guillaume, Paris
with Alex Reid and Lefevre, London, until 1936, sold 16 June to Bignou
with Étienne Bignou, Paris and New York, 1936, sold to Field
Marshall Field, New York, 1936-39
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Marshall Field, 1939

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 39.15

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