Théodore Rousseau

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. 47

Literature
Sylvie Patry (ed.), Inventing impressionism, London, 2015, fig. 47

Provenance

the artist, Paris (until d. 1867)
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 27, 1868, no. 52, to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1868–87 (as a part of a series of complicated financial arrangements it was held with Hector Brame, Jules Feder, and Charles(?) Edwards
included in the collection sale "d'un amateur," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 24, 1881, no. 52, to Durand-Ruel and later sold to Robertson for American Art Association
with American Art Association, New York, 1887–92
sale, "The Collections of the American Art Association to be Absolutely Sold by Auction to Settle the Estate of the Late R. Austin Robertson," New York, April 7–8, 1892, no. 155, to Widener
P.A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania (1892–1911)

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 11.4

Other works by Théodore Rousseau

Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun
1851

Sunset near Arbonne
c. 1860-65

Under the birches, evening
1842-43

The Descent of the Cattle in the High Jura Mountains
c. 1834-35

The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest
1852-54