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Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun
Théodore Rousseau1851
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun
- Creator: Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)
- Date Created: 1851
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 143 x 165 x 13 cm (56 5/16 x 64 15/16 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 109.1 x 130.2 cm (42 15/16 x 51 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Charles Edwards. His sale, Paris, Drouot, 7 March 1870 (lot 33), "Sortie de forêt au coucher du soleil (site du Bas-Bréau), 1.07 x 1.30 m; 1851, Exposition Universelle 1855," illustrated catalogue, 104 (repr.), ff 17,900 (sold to Saulnier according to annotated copy in the Frick Art Reference Library, N.Y.; sold to Brame according to an annotated copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris. Bought by Durand-Ruel & Cie (stock number 873), 12 March 1891, together with Corot's Cavaliers dans une allée, on behalf of James J. Hill, St. Paul. (Sent with the Corot to New York 18 March 1891.) Walter J. Hill, Livingston, Montana. Supposedly sold by Knoedler & Co., New York, in 1952 to a private collector in Beverly Hills, but the Knoedler stock book for 1952 does not list the painting. In the 1957 stock book, however, on 12 January, no. 5150, a Rousseau painting entitled "Wooded Landscape, 51œ x 43," was bought by Knoedler from Mrs. Charles McWilliams Jr. Sold to Richard L. Feigen for Edward D. Mittchell, Beverly Hills, on 16 January 1957. Sold by Richard L. Feigen & Co., on behalf of Mittchell, through Colnaghi, New York, to the CMA in 1983.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.70
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: T. H. Rousseau
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1983.70
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