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Artist or Maker: Théodore-Étienne-Pierre Rousseau (French, 1812-1867)

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Description: Torrent en Auvergne et retenue - Région de Thiers ou Pas-de-Ceré
signed with initials 'TH.R.' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
12 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (32.4 x 46.7 cm.)
Painted in 1830

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Published: M. Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, Catalogue Raisonne et l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1999, p. 85, no. 12 (illustrated).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA COLLECTION

'I also heard the voices of the trees; this whole world of flora lived as deaf-mutes whose signs I devined and whose passions I uncovered: I wanted to talk with them and to be able to tell myself, by this other language - painting - that I had put my finger on the secret of their majesty." - Theodore Rousseau

This work has been authenticated by the Comité Théodore Rousseau and will be included in the forthcoming Rousseau catalogue raisonné.