Countryside in Picardy
1860
Painter, French, 1812 - 1867
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.23 × 27.31 cm (8 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)
framed: 41.28 × 46.36 × 8.89 cm (16 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.47
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
M. Lefebvre, Roubaix; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1896, no. 43);[1] (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); sold 12 May 1896 to William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[2] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting is stock number 8068 in the M. Knoedler and Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales book 7, 1892 July-1900 October, page 149.
[2] Date of sale according to M. Knoedler and Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 4, 4369-8799, 1883 April-1899 April, page 212.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.
2011
A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1915
Hoeber, Arthur. The Barbizon Painters. New York, 1915: repro. opposite 236, as Landscape at Picardie.
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 180, no. 193.
1999
Schulman, Michel. Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867. 2 vols. Paris, 1999: 2:308, no. 596, repro., as Plaine de Cély en Bière, forêt de Fontainebleau.
Inscriptions
lower left: Th. Rousseau
Wikidata ID
Q46627802