4.2017: Valley of the Rouars in the Gorges d’Apremont

Identification and Creation

Object Number

4.2017

People

Théodore Rousseau, French (Paris 1812 - 1867 Barbizon)

Title

Valley of the Rouars in the Gorges d’Apremont

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1855

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/357286

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil and pastel on panel

Dimensions

41 × 64 cm (16 1/8 × 25 3/16 in.)
Frame: 60 × 82 cm (23 5/8 × 32 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: center left of support, printed text: COLLECTION / CLAUDE AUBRY
• inscription: center left, graphite: 97
• inscription: center, right, black stencil: 1550
• label: upper center, printed text, serrated edges: 2653
• label: upper center, printed text: 14.556
• inscription: center, graphite: 2
• inscription: bottom right edge of frame, black marked: 13 [encircled]
• inscription: upper right of frame, white chalk: [illegible text]
• inscription: center right, black stencil: 506BZ [Christie's Stock Number]
• inscription: black ink: 9576
• inscription: blue chalk: 1346505991
• inscription: black ink: Petite valleé des Rouars.
• inscription: lower right, on tape between frame and object, blue pen: 65 [encircled]
• label: left side of frame, handwritten text: 75 -

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Armand François Paul des Friches, comte Doria, Château d’Orrouy (d. 1896); to his estate, sold; [through his sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 4-5, 1899, lot 214]. [Knoedler, London and New York]. [1] G.N. Stevens, London, sold; through his sale [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 14, 1912, lot 55]; to [Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, Knoedler & Co., New York, and Georges Bernheim, Paris], sold; to [Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, August 6, 1912], transferred to New York stock, sold; to unknown purchaser, October 11, 1913]. Private Collector, Chicago, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1982, lot 109A]. [Claude Aubry, Paris], by descent; to his wife, sold; to [Thierry Normand, Paris, October 2011], sold; to Private Collection, March 2012

Notes
[1] Knoedler is listed in the two catalogues raisonnés as prior to Stevens.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Private Collection

Object Number

4.2017

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arsène Alexandre and Léon Roger-Milès, Album-souvenir de la collection Armand Doria, Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, 1899), p. 46, repr.
• Catalogue de tableaux modernes..., auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, May 4-5, 1899), p. 66, lot no. 214
• Collection de M. le Comte Armand Doria, auct. cat., Imprimerie Georges Petit (Paris, 1899), lot no. 214, repr.
• Walther Gensel, Millet und Rousseau, Verlag von Velhagen & Klafing (Leipzig, 1902), pp. 95, 98, repr. p. 95 as pl. 22
• Catalogue of Important Pictures and Drawings of the Barbizon School and Works by Modern English Artists, the Property of G. N. Stevens, Esq., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, June 14, 1912), p. 17, lot 55, repr.
• Important 19th Century European Paintings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, May 27, 1982), lot no. 109A, repr.
• Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre graphique, Éditions de l'amateur (Paris, 1997), p. 263, cat. no. 527, repr.
• Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Éditions de l'amateur (Paris, 1999), p. 293, cat. no. 560, repr.
• Rolande Miquel and Pierre Miquel, Theodore Rousseau, 1812-1867, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2010), p. 111, ill.
• Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867: Le renouveau de la peinture de paysage, exh. cat., Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Maison d'Armande Béjart, Meudon (Meudon, 2013), p. 16, repr.
• Edouard Kopp and Scott Allan, Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2016), p. 34, cat. no. 47, repr. p. 135

Exhibition History

• Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867: Le renouveau de la peinture de paysage, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Maison d'Armande Béjart, Meudon, 02/23/2013 - 04/28/2013
• 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/11/2017 - 07/18/2019
• Unruly Nature: The Landscape of Thédore Rousseau, J. Paul Getty Museum, 06/21/2016 - 09/11/2016; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 10/13/2016 - 01/08/2017

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