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Théodore Rousseau · c. 1860
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Saulnier, Bordeaux, by 1886; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 5, 1886, lot 73 for 24,500 francs to Brogue et Cie, possibly as agent for Eugène Secrétan [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Eugène Secrétan, Paris, by 1889; his sale Galerie Sedelmeyer, July 1, 1889, lot 71. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University, A Festival of Fine Arts, February 26–March 10, 1956, no. 2.
Literature
Published references
- Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 57, no. 33.
- “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
- “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of The Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 33.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 67, no. 33.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 74, no. 33.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 94, no. 33.
- “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 33.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 162, no. 133.
- Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 713, no. 33.
- Walther Gensel, Millet und Rousseau (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1902), pp. 97 (ill.), 102.
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