Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris

1. Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris, by 1927 [Zervos 1927]. Valentine Dudensing, New York, 1929 [Chicago 1933]. Walter S. Brewster (1872–1954) and Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947), by 1933 [Chicago 1933]; bequeathed by Kate Brewster to the Art Institute, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Jan. 20–22, 1933, cat. 27.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Henri Rousseau, January 22–February 23, 1942, pp. 20–21 (ill.); traveled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 17–May 3, 1942.
• Pittsburgh, Penn., Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Rousseau, Dec. 4–27, 1942, cat. 16.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate L. Brewster Bequest, September 1950, no cat.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Henri Rousseau di “Le Douanier,” Feb.–Mar. 1961, cat. 6 (ill.).
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, Henri Rousseau, Apr. 17–May 25, 1963, cat. 8 (ill.).
• London, Tate Modern, Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris, November 3, 2005–February 5, 2006, pp. 126, fig. 88, 129, 130, and 222, cat. 31; traveled to Paris, Grand Palais, March 13–June 19, 2006 and Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art, July 16–Oct. 15, 2006.
• Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation, Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets, Oct. 19, 2025 – Feb 22, 2026, no cat. no., pl. 44, as Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris (Scierie aux environs de Paris); Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Mar. 24–July 20, 2026, cat. 52, as Scierie, environs de Paris.

• Adolphe Basler, “L’Douanier’ Henri Rousseau,” L’Art Vivant (October 15, 1926), p. 782, as Paysage des environs de Paris (ill.).
• Christian Zervos, “Henri Rousseau et le sentiment poétique,” Cahiers d’art 9 (1926), p. 227 (ill.).
• Adolphe Basler, Henri Rousseau: Sa vie, son oeuvre (New York: Weyhe, 1927), p. 30, as Scierie de Clamart.
• Christian Zervos, Rousseau (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1927), pl. 16, as Environs de Paris.
• André Salmon, Henri Rousseau dit le Douanier (Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès, 1927), no. 30, as Paysage (ill.).
• James-Johnson Sweeny, “Exposition d’rt Français, Academie Royale des Arts, Burlington House, Londres,” Cahiers d’art 7:1–2 (1932), pp. 38, 39 (ill.).
• Wilhelm Uhde, “Henri Rousseau et les Primitifs Modernes,” L’Amour de l’art 14:8 (October 1933), p. 192, fig. 240, as Paysage.
• Christian Zervos, Histoire de l’art contemporain (Paris: Editions Cahiers d’art, 1938), p. 106 (ill.).
• Daniel Catton Rich, Henri Rousseau, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), pp. 20–21 (ill.).
• “The Henri Rousseau Exhibition,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago XXXVI:2 (February 1942), p. 19.
• Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings by Henri Rousseau, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1942), cat. 16.
• J. O’C., Jr., “Henri Rousseau: Exhibition of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute from December 4 to December 27,” Carnegie Magazine 16:7 (December 1942), pp. 209 and 212.

The Waterfall

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Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase

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River and Park Landscape

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War

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Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet

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Mess Downstream, the Auteuil Quai

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Oak Branch

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Landscape

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