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Description: Henri 'Le Douanier' Rousseau (1844-1910)
Vue d'Alfortville
signed 'Henri Rousseau' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 20½ in. (40.3 x 52 cm.)
Painted in 1906

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Provenance: M. Brummer, by 1907.
Flachfeld, by whom probably acquired from the above.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 March 1927, lot 55.
Georges Bernheim, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Gaston Schulmann, Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Acquired by the uncle of the present owner circa 1930s, and thence by descent.

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Exhibited: Paris, 23ème Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1907, no. 4289.
Basel, Kunsthaus, Henri Rousseau, 1933, no. 40.
Paris, Salle Royale, Les Maîtres populaires de la réalité, 1937, no. 11 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Henri Rousseau et le monde des naïfs, 1966, no. 28 (illustrated).

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Published: Le Figaro Artistique, Paris, 28 April 1927 (illustrated).
A. Basler, Henri Rousseau, Paris, 1927, no. 28 (illustrated).
C. Zervos, Henri Rousseau, Paris, 1927, no. 56.
R. Grey, Henri Rousseau, Paris, 1943, no. 69.
W. Uhde, Rousseau (Le Douanier), Lausanne, 1948, no. 14.
L. Duca, Henri Rousseau dit le Douanier, Paris, 1951, p. 8.
D. Vallier, Henri Rousseau, Paris, 1961, note 79.
J. Bouret, Henri Rousseau, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 172 (illustrated).
D. Vallier, L'Opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere, Milan, 1969, p. 104, no. 186 (illustrated).
H. Certigny, Le Douanier Rousseau en son temps: biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Tokyo, 1984, no. 245 (illustrated).

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