Théodore Rousseau
A SUNLIT VALLEY (VALLÉE ENCAISSÉE), 1830-1835
oil on paper laid on canvas
10 3/4 by 14 1/4 in. (27.2 by 37 cm)
Provenance
Seth Morton Vose, Boston (acquired directly from the artist)
Anthony Bamfylde
H.N. Robertson
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London by 1955
Eugene Thaw, New York
Private collection (acquired from the above)
Exhibitions
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1955, no. 41, p. 18
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1960, no. 32, p. 15
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1961, no. 18, p. 12
Literature
Terence Mullaly, "The Barbizon School: II. Rousseau," Apollo, August 1955, pp. 46-47, fig. 1, illustrated (as The Valley)
Michael Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Vol. II, Paris, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1999, p. 96, no. 43, illustrated.