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Fig. 15 - Charles Maurand, Le Monde
Eventually, Rousseau submitted La Ferme to the 1859 Salon, where it received mixed reviews,
although it was engraved for the newspaper Le Monde by Charles Maurand (Fig.15).20 Rousseau
then continued to work on the picture throughout the 1860s, and in the fall of 1863, during a
particularly intense period of work, he reworked it at the same time as the Frick’s LeVillage.
This painting had originally been bought together with Le Four in 1862 by Alfred Hartmann
(Fig.16), at the suggestion of his brother, Fréderic.
Alfred, a noted collector in his own right, nevertheless subsequently surrendered these two
paintings to Fréderic Hartmann, who then asked Rousseau to paint as a replacement for Alfred,
20 Charles Maurand for Le Monde Illustré, Paris, 10 September 1859, as Bornage de Barbizon (Forêt de Fontainebleau).
21 Kelly, op. cit., 2001, p. 552.
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