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Théodore Rousseau

A Sunlit Valley (Vallée encaissée)

Auction Closed

February 2, 09:59 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Théodore Rousseau

French 1812–1867

A Sunlit Valley (Vallée encaissée)


signed with initials lower left: TH R ; further inscribed lower right: 24.

oil paper laid on canvas

canvas: 10 ¾ by 14 ¼ in.; 27.2 by 37 cm

framed: 16 ½ by 20 ¼ in.; 42 by 51.5 cm

Acquired directly from the artist

Seth Morton Vose, Boston

Anthony Bamfylde

H.N. Robertson

With Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London

With Eugene Thaw, New York

Acquired at the above by the present owner

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1955, no. 41

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1960, no. 32

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1961, no. 18

Apollo, August 1955, no.35

Exhibition catalogue, London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1955, p.18

Exhibition catalogue, London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1960, p.15

Exhibition catalogue, London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1961, p.12

Michael Schulman, Theodore Rousseau, Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre Peint, Paris, 1999, Les Editions de l’Amateur, p.96, no.43, illustrated in black and white

We would like to thank Michel Schulman who kindly confirmed the authenticity of the present work.