Interpretation
When the British artist John Constable was awarded a gold medal for his painting The Hay Wain in the Paris Salon of 1824, his reputation in France grew so rapidly that throughout the 1820s and ’30s the Parisian art dealer John Arrowsmith continually maintained a room devoted to the artist’s paintings and oil sketches. There, French naturalists—including the young Rousseau—found inspiration in Constable’s practice of sketching directly from nature. This influence is clearly evident in Rousseau’s drawing of a fisherman’s cart in a rustic village on the coast of Normandy.
Information
- Title
- Landscape with Church, Cart, and Farmhouses
- Object Number
- x1948-507
- Maker
- Théodore Rousseau
- Medium
- Graphite
- Dates
- ca. 1835
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 33.2 cm (8 1/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
- Culture
- French
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- Stamp in ink, lower left: TH.R [Lugt 2437]
Stamp in ink, verso: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a]
- Type
- Materials
Dan Fellows Platt;
Bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum
- Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921)., Lugt no. 2437
- 19th and 20th century French drawings from the Art Museum, Princeton University: an introduction, (Princeton, NJ: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1972)., pp. 22, 95, cat. no. 79; p. 23 (illus.)
- Russell Lynes, At the waterʾs edge: 19th & 20th century American beach scenes, (Tampa, FL: Tampa Museum of Art, 1989).
- European Drawings from Neo-Classicism to Impressionism (Tuesday, December 04, 1990 - Sunday, January 06, 1991)
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