Mountain Stream in the Auvergne, 1830

Not on View

Medium

oil on paper on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Fund

Accession Number

1997.24.1

Artists / Makers

Théodore Rousseau (painter) French, 1812 - 1867

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: Th. Rousseau

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

Drouot Richelieu
Drouot, Hôtel
Mendès-France, Mme
Schiller & Bodo

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.

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.