Théodore Rousseau
The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest
1852-5480 x 121.9 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated, lower left: TH.Rousseau- 1854
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1896
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 48
Provenance
Victor de Papeleu, Paris
General Goethals, Brussels, in 1872
?Prosper Crabbe, Brussels
with Georges Petit, Paris, in 1882
M. Defoer, Paris, in 1883
William Schaus, New York, until d. 1892
his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 28 February 1896, nr. 16, to Samuel P. Avery for MMA
Other works by Théodore Rousseau
Under the birches, evening
1842-43
1842-43
The Descent of the Cattle in the High Jura Mountains
c. 1834-35
c. 1834-35
Chopping Trees on the Île de Croissy
1847
1847
The Fisherman, Early Morning
c. 1865
c. 1865
Avenue of Chestnut Trees
1837-42
1837-42