Provenance

(possibly) Louis François Alfred Perrin de Bénévent (1824-1882) and Caroline Claudine Juliette Perrin de Bénévent, née Coumert (1831-1892), Lyon, after 1851.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 February 1983, lot 148, as A Wooded Landscape with a Peasant on a Path.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1991, lot 138, as A Peasant in the Forest of Fontainebleau.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Sale Christie's, New York, 20 May 2025, nr. 33

Other works by Théodore Rousseau

Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun
1851

Sunset near Arbonne
c. 1860-65

Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau Setting Sun
1851-60

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
c. 1846-67

Under the birches, evening
1842-43