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Description: 1844-1910
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measurements
8 by 6 in.

alternate measurements
20.4 by 15.3 cm

Oil on card laid down on cradled panel

PROVENANCE

Artist's studio
Robert Delaunay, Paris (probably acquired from the estate of the artist)
Willy Streit, Hamburg (1938)
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin and Düsseldorf
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1969)

EXHIBITED

(Probably) Paris, 27ème Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1911, no. 39 (titled Étude aux environs de Paris and from the collection of Robert Delaunay)
(Probably) Berlin, Salon d'Automne de Berlin, 1913, no. 10 (titled Étude aux environs de Paris)

LITERATURE

Ingeborg Eichman, "Five Sketches by Henri Rousseau", The Burlington Magazine, June 1938, illustrated (titled Landscape)
Dora Vallier, Henri Rousseau, New York, 1963, no. 144, illustrated (as dating from 1908-10)
Dora Vallier, L'Opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere, Milan, 1969, no. 222, illustrated p. 108
Henri Certigny, Le Douanier Rousseau en son temps; Bibliographie et Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Tokyo, 1984, no. 238, illustrated
p. 491 (as dating from 1905-06)