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Description: "COUCHER DE SOLEIL DANS LES LANDES PRES DE BEGAAR" signed twice with monogram oil on canvas 40 by 34 1/4 in. 101.6 by 87 cm. Of this region Rousseau wrote in his travelling journal, "...a primitive, but flavoured county of tropical climate and vegetation where melons, lemons and orange trees are as fresh and plentiful as apples are elsewhere growing by the side of oaks as majestic as those of Fontainebleau among the wooden houses of the peasants, overshadowed by their widespreading boughs." The painting was commissioned by one of Rousseau's loyal patrons, Frederic Hartmann. This lot will be sold together with a photo-certificate from Pierre Miquel, dated Cannes, 15 December 1992, and will be included in his forthcoming catalogue raisonne. Provenance: M. Frederic Hartmann (sale, Paris, May 7, 1881, Lot 14, illustrated) Arnold & Tripp, Paris Durand-Ruel, Paris E. Burgess Warren, Philadelphia Exhibited: Philadelphia, The Union League of Philadelphia, Art Loan Exhibition, May 1889 Literature: John W. Mollet, The Painters of Barbizon, Millet, Rouseau, Diaz, London, 1890, pp. 64-5.