Lot 82
  • 82

Théodore Rousseau

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Théodore Rousseau
  • Cavalier à la lisière d'un bois
  • oil on panel
  • 15 1/2 by 25 in.
  • 39.5 by 63.5 cm

Provenance

Galerie Marc Blondeau, Paris
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1991)

Exhibited

London, Barbizon House, 1924, no. 25

Literature

Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1999, p. 249, no. 440, illustrated
Rolande and Pierre Miquel, Théodore Rousseau 1812-1867, Paris, 2010, p. 142, illustrated

Condition

On a stable cradled panel. Minor frame abrasion visible at top center and lower right. Under UV: Thin horizontal line of inpainting to the sky above center tree and in sky at upper right. Evidence of old inpainting in dots and dashes in foliage of landscape.
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