Thodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)

Portrait de la grand-mre de l'artiste

细节

Thodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)
Rousseau, T.
Portrait de la grand-mre de l'artiste
pencil and watercolor on paper
9 x 8 in. (24.2 x 20.2 cm.)

来源

Gustave Robert Collection.
Wyatt Eaton.
Shepherd Gallery, New York (acquired by the present owner 1968).

出版

M. Schulman, Thodore Rousseau-Catalogue Raisonn de l'Oeuvre Graphique, Paris, 1997, p. 134, no. 157 (illustrated).

展览

New York, Shepherd Gallery, The Non-Dissenters, David through Puvis de Chavannes, 1968, no. 92.
New York, Shepherd Gallery, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture - Fall Exhibition, 1994.

拍品专文

This is a preparatory drawing for a painting of Rousseau's grandmother (see Thodore Rousseau, exh. cat. Paris, Muse du Louvre, 1967, no. 13). Rousseau spent two months with his paternal grandmother in Salins after a trip to the Jura in 1834, and this work was most likely executed during this visit.

There is an inscription on an old backing on the reverse which may be transcribed: Offert mon bien excellent ami/Monsieur Wyatt Eaton/Paris. Octobre 89/Gustave Robert. Wyatt Eaton (1849-1896) was an American painter studying in Paris under Jean Lon Grme.