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Artist or Maker: Théodore-Etienne-Pierre Rousseau (French, 1817-1862)

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Description: Soleil couchant dans la plaine de Barbizon
signed 'TH. Rousseau' (lower left); with the artist's seal on the stretcher
oil on canvas
16 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (41.9 x 64 cm.)
Painted in 1862

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Provenance: The Artist's Studio Sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 April-2 May 1868, lot 45.
Durand-Ruel, Paris, no. 5681.
Tavernier; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11 June 1894, lot 13.
with Boussod & Valadon, Paris.
Collection Ernest May, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Salon du Trianon, Versailles, 30 November 1969, lot 143.
with Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris.
with Richard L. Feigen, New York.
Private Collection, Tokyo.

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Published: M. Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1999, p. 314, no. 614 (illustrated).

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Notes: This work has been authenticated by Galerie Brame and Lorenceau.