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PIERRE ÉTIENNE THÉODORE ROUSSEAU
Paris 1812-1867 Barbizon
La Ferme dans les Landes or La Maison du garde
Signed, lower right, Th Rousseau
Oil on canvas
25 1⁄2 x 39 3⁄8 inches
65 x 100 cm
PROVENANCE:
Jacques Félix Frédéric Hartmann (1822-1880), Munster and Paris, purchased directly from the
artist in circa 1852-53; but not received until after the artist’s death (his sale: Paris, 18 rue de
Courcelles, 7 May 1881, lot 16 (FF 73,000 to his wife, together with Millet’s Le Printemps, Paris
Musée d’Orsay);
Madame Julie Hartmann, née Julie Aimée Sanson-Davillier (1826-1907); sold to
Galerie Brame, Paris, 24 December 1907 (inv. no. 2020); sold to
M. Alfred Baillehache (1870-1922), 6 May 1909;
François, vicomte de Curel (1854-1928), Paris (his sale: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 3 May
1918, lot 16);
Collection L.Tauber, Paris; thence by descent to
Monsieur Baveret, Paris, circa 1945;
Private collection, Paris; by descent to
Private collection, Portugal
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