
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Provenance
John Saulnier, Bordeaux, by 1886; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 5, 1886, lot 73 for 24,500 francs to Brogue et Cie, possibly as agent for Eugène Secrétan [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Eugène Secrétan, Paris, by 1889; his sale Galerie Sedelmeyer, July 1, 1889, lot 71. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.
Exhibition history
Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University, A Festival of Fine Arts, February 26–March 10, 1956, no. 2.
Publications
Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 57, no. 33. “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of The Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 33. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 67, no. 33. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 74, no. 33. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 94, no. 33. “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 33. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 162, no. 133. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 713, no. 33. Walther Gensel, Millet und Rousseau (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1902), pp. 97 (ill.), 102. N. Hudson Moore, “The Barbizon School II,” The Chautauquan 36 (1903), p. 504. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 168, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 179, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 171, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 115, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 119, no. 133 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 119, no. 133 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 25, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 25, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 25, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 151, no. 133. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 169. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 406. Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 35, 36 (ill.), 119. Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th- Century Painting (New York and London: Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 32 (ill.). Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, 1812–1867: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1999), p. 321, no. 630 (ill.). Greg M. Thomas, Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 25, 27, 182, fig. 11.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 42.2 × 54 cm (15 5/8 × 21 1/4 in.); Framed: 71.8 × 85.1 cm (28 1/4 × 33 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Henry Field Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1894.1066
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