Landscape with Boatman
c. 1860
Artist, French, 1812 - 1867


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 92
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 19.4 x 26.3 cm (7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
framed: 39.4 x 46.4 x 5.7 cm (15 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.1.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Solomon Goldschmidt; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17 May 1888, no. 45 as La Rivière); (Bague). (M. Knoedler & Co., New York).[1] Maurice Gentien;[2] (his sale, Galerie George Petit, 3-4 December 1923, no.45, as La Rivière); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York).[3] Acquired by 1941 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York;[4] gift 1949 to NGA.
[1] According to Michel Schulman, Theodor Rousseau 1812-1867, 2 vols., Paris, 1997-1999, this may be the same as the Paysage normand that Goldschmidt bought from Goupil in 1879, that Goupil had bought from Everard in 1875.
[2] A note on the NGA accession card mistakenly gives the name as Maurice Geautier.
[3] Per annotated sales catalogue in NGA library.
[2] The painting was Included in Gallatin's initial offer of his collection to the National Gallery of Art, which was accepted on an "if and when" basis in 1941; see NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1954
Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1954-1955.
1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.
2016
Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 2016-2017, no. 48, repro.
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 117.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 104, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 312, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 359, repro.
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: 340-342, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: TH.Rousseau.
Wikidata ID
Q20188420