Théodore Rousseau

Estate of the artist (L.2436), sale, Paris, Durand-Ruel and Brame, 27-30 April 1868;
Probably Hazard collection, sale Paris, 1-3 December 1919, lot 381;
John Rewald;
sale, New York, Christie's, 22 May 1996, lot 125, purchased by the late owner

M. Schulman, Théodore Rousseau. Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre graphique, Paris 1997, vol. I, no. 228, reproduced;
Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., Berlin, 1999, p. 416,reproduced;
The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., Berlin, 1999, p. 416,reproduced

The sheet has not been laid down and is instead attached to the backboard intermittently along the upper edge. There is a small old crease and possible repair in the lower right corner and a faint old crease near and roughly parallel to the extreme left edge. This work is in good condition. Presented framed and glazed, the edges of the sheet visible and not covered by the mat. For any questions regarding this lot please contact Richard Lowkes in the 19th Century European Paintings department on 020 7293 5477.
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Executed circa 1837-40.