Mountain Stream in the Auvergne

1830

Théodore Rousseau

Painter, French, 1812 - 1867

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on paper on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 31 x 37 cm (12 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
    framed: 42.1 x 49.7 x 4.8 cm (16 9/16 x 19 9/16 x 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.24.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mme Mendès-France; (her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30-31 May 1932, no. 169). (sale, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 8 December 1995, no. 130).[1] (Schiller & Bodo, New York); purchased 10 February 1997 by NGA.
[1] This sale was discovered and added to the collection database in November 2001. It is not included in the provenance published in Lorenz Eitner, French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, New York and Oxford, 2000: 335.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Les Peintres de Barbizon a travers la France, Maison de la Culture, Bourges, 1973, no. 35.

2003

  • Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics, Tate Britain, London; Minneapolis Inst. of Arts; Met. Mus. of Art, New York, 2003-2004, no. 118 (U.S. title: Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism).

2016

  • Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 2016- 2017, no. 8, repro.

Bibliography

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 335-340, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Th. Rousseau

Wikidata ID

Q20185703

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