Lot 204
204
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Theodore Rousseau* (French, 1812-1867)

Details
Theodore Rousseau* (French, 1812-1867)

La plaine rocheuse de Barbizon

indistinctly signed 'TH. Rous...' lower right--oil on panel
16 3/8 x 25¼in. (41.6 x 64.2cm.)
Provenance
M. Edouard Kums; sale, l'Hotel Kums, Anvers, May 17-18, 1898, no. 16 (illustrated) [as Mare dans les Roches de Barbizon]
Anon. sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 17, 1944, no. 81 (illustrated as La mare au petit matin)
Exhibited
Paris, Cercle des Arts, Notice des Études peintes par Théodore Rousseau, Paris, June 1867, no. 94
London, Hazlitt Gallery, Paintings by 'Le Grand Réfusé' Théodore Rousseau 1812-1867, Nov. 1961, no. 38 (illustrated) [as Crépuscule à Barbizon]

Lot Essay

Painted circa 1855-1860.

This painting will be included in Volume 2 of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Théodore Rousseau by Michel Schulman.