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Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in black crayon: "H. Rousseau"
Provenance
Mme. Roman, Paris, before 1926; given to Mlle. Lucie Gorse (later Mme. Jean-Paul Cazard), between 1929 and 1933; by descent to the Cazard-Gorse family, to 2000 [according to Certigny 1984 and London 2000 auc. cat.]; sold, Christie’s, London, July 29, 2000, lot 520, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 132-133, cat. 93 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Henry Certigny, La Vérité sur le Douanier Rousseau (Lausanne, 1971), no. 21 (ill.). Henry Certigny, Le Douanier Rousseau en Son Temps I (Tokyo, 1984), pp. 62–63, no. 32 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2006), pp. 132–133, cat. 93 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Rousseau / French, 1844–1910
- Date
- c. 1888
- Medium
- Black crayon, with graphite, heightened with white chalk and white pencil, on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 38.9 × 31.8 cm (15 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1018
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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