
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002451In the Forest of Fontainbleau
Provenance
Sold by B. C. Holland, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1967.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Christian Aubay, June 1967, cat. 39. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 44 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 96-97, cat. 45 (ill.). Munich, Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Haus der Kunst, "Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: Les amis de la nature," February 2-April 21, 1996, pp. 367 (ill.) and 400, cat. C83. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Souvenirs of the Barbizon: Photographs, Paintings and Works on Paper", July 2 - September 25, 2011.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5F10. Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau 1812-1867: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre Graphique (Paris, 1997), p. 239, no. 460 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Théodore Rousseau / French, 1812-1867
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and black pastel, heightened with touches of white chalk, on dark tan wove paper, laid down on tan wood pulp board
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 42.4 cm (11 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 1967.487
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