Countryside in Picardy, 1860

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.47

Artists / Makers

Théodore Rousseau (painter) French, 1812 - 1867

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: Th. Rousseau

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

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Galerie Georges Petit
Knoedler & Company, M.
Lefebvre

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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 180, no. 193.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.