The European Art Sale Part I

The European Art Sale Part I

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A Private New York Collection

Théodore Rousseau

Twilight

Auction Closed

January 27, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Théodore Rousseau

French

1812 - 1867

Twilight


signed TH. Rousseau (lower right)

oil on panel

panel: 16 7/16 by 24⅞ in.; 41.7 by 63.1 cm

framed: 16 ½ x 24 1/8 in.; 41.9 by 61.2 cm

Collection Henry Vever
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, no. 1508
Collection of Van Praet, Brussels
Collection of Garnier, Paris
His Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 and 4 December 1894, no. 73 (as Paysage. (Soleil couchant.))
H.S. Henry Collection, American Art Association, New York
J. Montgomery and the Honorable Hugh J. Grant, acquired at the above sale
Thence by descent in the family
with Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2015

Michael Schulman, Theodore Rousseau, Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre Peint, Paris, 1999, no. 357, p. 217, illustrated.

Offered in an 18th-century French Louis XIV frame.