Art Institute of Chicago

Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase

Henri Rousseau · c. 1904

Provenance

Ownership history

Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), Paris, by May 1928 [this and the two following according to Getty Provenance Index, Knoedler Stock Book 8, Page 41, Row 51, Stock No. A192, copy in curatorial object file]; M. Knoedler and Company, New York, by Nov. 1928; sold to Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871-1964), Washington, D.C. and Stone Ridge, NY, Nov. 23, 1928; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation, Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets, Oct. 19, 2025 – Feb 22, 2026, no cat. no., pl. 4, as Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase (Dahlie et marguerites dans un vase); Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Mar. 24–July 20, 2026, cat. 49, as Fleurs et dahlia dans un vase.

Literature

Published references

The World’s Masters: Henri Rousseau (London: The Studio, 1936), pl. XV (ill.).
Jean Bouret, Henri Rousseau, trans. Martin Leake (Greenwich, CT and New York: New York Graphic Society, 1961), 211 (ill.), 257, no. 140, as Fleurs et dahlia dans un vase, and Dahlia and Flowers in a Vase.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 406.
Giovanni Artieri, L’opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere (Milan: Rizzoli, 1969), 120, fig. N.9a, as Vaso con Margherite e Dalia.
Giovanni Artieri and Dora Vallier, L’opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere (Milan: Rizzoli, 1969), 120, fig. 9a.
Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), 100.
Carolyn Keay, Henri Rousseau: Le Douanier (New York: Rizzoli, 1976), 140, 181, fig. 40.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, eds., Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), 68, no. 3F12.
Nancy Ireson and Christopher Green, eds., Barbara Buckley, Juliette Degennes, Martha Lucy, Mina Porell, and Anya Shutova, Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: The Barnes Foundation, 2025), 64, 72, pl. 4 (color ill), 207n34, 208n40, 313, as Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase (Dahlie et marguerites dans un vase).
Nancy Ireson, Laurence Campa, Juliette Degennes, Christopher Green, and Johanna Salvant, Henri Rousseau, A Painter's Ambition/Henri Rousseau, l’ambition de la peinture, exh. cat. (Paris:
Musée de l’Orangerie, 2026), 79, 128, cat. 49, 129, cat. 49 (color ill.), 211, as Fleurs et dahlia dans un vase.

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