Theodore Rousseau
(Paris 1812 - 1867 Barbizon)
Chêne penché sur une mare au Bas-Breau, forêt de Fontainebleau, c.1860
Oil on canvas, 55 x 65.5 cm
Provenance:
The Webster Family Trust descended from the Rockefeller/Dodge Family
Exhibitons:
Paris, Salon 1863, as 1634 Une mare sous les chênes
Literature:
Amand-Durand and Alfred Sensier, Études et croquis de Théodore Rousseau, Paris 1876, n.p., no. 19, illustrated;
Prosper Dorbec, Théodore Rousseau, Paris 1910, illus. p. 81;
Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Paris , Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1999, p. 302, no. 580 (listed as location unknown with incorrect dimensions of 22 x 26.2 cm, 8 5/8 x 10 4/16 in.).