Springtime

c. 1860

Théodore Rousseau
French, 1812-1867

Status: On View, Gallery 222
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Théodore Rousseau
Title: Springtime
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1855–1865
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 42.2 × 54 cm (15 5/8 × 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1066
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Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University, A Festival of Fine Arts, February 26–March 10, 1956, no. 2.

John Saulnier, Bordeaux, by 1886; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 5, 1886, lot 73 for 24,500 francs to Brogue et Cie, possibly as agent for Eugène Secrétan [price and buyer according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Eugène Secrétan, Paris, by 1889; his sale Galerie Sedelmeyer, July 1, 1889, lot 71. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

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