Theodore Rousseau* (1812-1867)

La Mare aux vipres en Fort de Fontainebleau (The Pond in the Forest of Fontainebleau)

Details

Theodore Rousseau* (1812-1867)
La Mare aux vipres en Fort de Fontainebleau (The Pond in the Forest of Fontainebleau)
signed 'TH.Rousseau.' (lower left)
oil on panel
6 x 9.5/8 in. (16.5 x 24.5 cm.)
Painted 1856-1857

Provenance

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (until June 1926)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Joseph Skinner, South Hadley, Massachusetts (purchased from the above, 1926; by descent to the present owner)

Lot Essay

The Comit Rousseau has confirmed the authenticity of this painting, which will be reproduced in the Rousseau catalogue raisonn of paintings in preparation by Pierre Miquel and Galerie Brame & Lorenceau.

Michel Schulman will include this painting in volume II of his forthcoming Rousseau catalogue raisonn.