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ThéodoreRousseau
ChemintraversantunboisdanslaforêtdeFontainebleau(LaChausséeduRoi)
ForestRoadatFontainebleau(TheKing’sRoad)
Charcoalonpaper,mountedoncardboard,162x264mm
onrecto,lowerright,stamp:“TH·R”[Lugt2436or2437?]
onverso,lowercentre,inscribedinpencil:“Th.Rousseau”
onmounting,recto,twolabels:“Waldstraße.AnfahrtdesKönigsFontainebleau,Vgl.Katalog
Sedelmeyer,StraßedurchdenWaldvonFontainebleau.”;“Th.Rousseau.RouteForestièreChaussée
duRoiFontainebleau.Vgl.CatalogueSedelmeyer”;upperleft,inscribedinpencil:“11108”;upper
centre,inpencil:“Th.Rousseau–Routeforestière,timbre(laChauséeduRoi,Fontainebleau,v.
CatalogueSedelmeyer”;centreleft,inscribedinblack:E.Delacroix,Dessinpour[…],CollectionEmile
Arago,VenteEmileArago5May1892”[crossedout];centre,inscribedinred:“5”
onmounting,verso,atcentre,inscribedinpencil:“[…]9038”
Provenance:
Sale:VenteRousseau,Durand-Ruel&Brame,27–30April1868(perstamp)
(...)
Bylatest2012:CorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Bibliographicalreferences:
CataloguedelaventequiauralieuparsuitedudécèsdeThéodoreRousseau,HôtelDrouot,Paris,
27–30April1968.
Lugt,Frits.LesMarquesdeCollectionsdeDessins&d’Estampes.1sted.,Amsterdam:Vereenigde
Drukkerijen,1921;supplement,TheHague:MartinusNijhoff,1956.[nos.L.2436,L.2437]
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/9484/total/1
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/9485/total/1(15December2015)
Schulman, Michel. Théodore Rousseau 1812–1867: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre graphique.
Paris:Éditionsdel’Amateur,1997.[relatedtono.462]
Primarysources:
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV41/005
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Furthersourcesconsulted:
TableauxmodernesdesÉcolesFrançaiseetÉtrangères.Auct.cat.,HôtelDrouot,Paris,30April–2
May1877.
Cataloguedestableaux,aquarellesetdessinscomposantlacollectionCh.Sedelmeyer:Quatrième
vente:Comprenantlestableaux,aquarellesetdessinsdel’écolemoderneetdesdessinsanciens.
Auct.cat.,GalerieSedelmeyer,Paris,12–14June1907.
Versteigerung von Gemälden, Aquarellen und Zeichnungen aus dem Besitze des Herrn Charles
Sedelmeyer,Paris(…).Auctcat.,KunsthandlungC.J.Wara,Vienna,14–15May1923.
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
Theinscriptiononversoreferstoadifferentdrawingofsamesubject,renderedincharcoalwith
washesofcolour,whichwassoldatthe1907Sedelmayersale;thatdrawingnowattheMuséedu
Louvre,Paris(inv.RF23339).Thesimilarityofcompositionallowsustoidentifytheworkinthe
SchwabingArtTroveasaviewoftheForestofFontainebleau.
TheestatestampatlowerrightsuggeststheinclusionofthisworkintheVenteRousseauof1868.
ThatsaleincludedagreatnumberofdrawingsoftheregionofFontainebleau,manyofwhichare
notdescribedinanydetail,makingitdifficulttoidentifythisworkamongtheauctionlots.
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