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Plain of Chailly,
ca. 1860–65
Théodore Rousseau, 1812–1867; born Paris, France; died Barbizon
y1950-16
Information
Title
Plain of Chailly
Dates
ca. 1860–65
Maker
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
42 x 59.7 cm (16 9/16 x 23 1/2 in.)
frame: 61 x 80.5 x 7 cm (24 x 31 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eugene Geddes
Object Number
y1950-16
Place Made
Europe, France
Place Depicted
France, Île-de-France, Chailly-en-Bière
Signatures
Signed in red, lower left corner: Th. Rousseau
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
M. C. Vignier, Paris (by 1910–20; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 27, 1920, lot 63); John Levy Galleries, New York (in 1946); Eugene Geddes, New York (until 1950; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Exposition de chefs-d'oeovre de l'École française: vingt peintres du XIXe siècle, ouverte du 2 au 31 mai 1910, (Paris: Galeries Georges Petit, 1910). , no. 165
- Léon Roger-Milès, Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'École Française: vingt peintres du XIXe siècle, (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1911)., no. 99
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Catalogue des tableaux modernes, pastels, aquarelles, dessins..., (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1920).
, lot 63 (illus.) - "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 15., p. 16
- Michael Schulman and Marie Batailles, Théodore Rousseau: 1812-1867, (Paris: Editions de l’amateur : Editions des catalogues raisonnés, 1997-1999)., Vol. 2: p. 93, no. 36 (illus.)
- Earth's beauty revealed: the nineteenth-century European landscape, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002)., cat. no. 12 (illus.); fig. 1
