Brook in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Théodore Rousseau (1812 - 1867), 1849
oil on panel, 26.6 cm x 34.7 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0290
- Dimensions
- 26.6 cm x 34.7 cm, 54 cm x 62 cm, 12 cm
- Provenance
- Possibly auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Théodore Rousseau), lot 64 (Sentier allant au point de vue du camp de Chailly), sold for FRF 500, 27 April-2 May 1868; auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux modernes et de Tableaux anciens composant la collection Laurent-Richard), lot 77 (Forêt de Fontainebleau (grisaille)), sold for FRF 2900, 23-25 May 1878; auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux modernes composant la collection de m. le baron De Beurnonville), lot 52 (Forêt de Fontainebleau (grisaille)), 29 April 1880; sold by Georges Petit to Arnold & Tripp for FRF 5000, 21 oktober 1884; sold by Arnold & Tripp to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 7000, 31 March 1885; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Théodore Rousseau
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh, Rousseau, Corot: in het bos, 7 July-10 September 2017
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, De romantiek van de Haagse School, 4 April-6 September 2015
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 202, 386-387
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 284