Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection 2019

Théodore Rousseau french, 1812–1867 A Garden in Barbizon (View from the Artist's Studio), c. 1850–55 Oil over ink on panel 4 ⅞ by 7 ⅞ inches ( 12 . 4 by 20 cm) Signed lower left provenance Goupil & Cie, Paris; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, purchased from above, May 27 , 1881 , Stock number 3312 , titled Village ; Charles Stewart Smith, New York, purchased from above, September 19 , 1881 ; Chester Dale, New York; Louise Marock, New York, received as gift from above; George Buchanan, New York in 1985 , by descent from above; thence to his widow, Mary Jane Buchanan; Robert Simon Fine Art; Coleman Bancroft LLC; William Louis-Dreyfus. bibliography Michel Schulman. Théodore Rousseau 1812–1867 catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre graphique . Paris: Editions de l’Amateur–Editions des catalogues raisonnés, 1997 . no. 465 , p. 257 ; Amy Kurlander, Simon R. Kelly, and William Griswold . The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon [exhibition, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, 26 September 2014 – 18 January 2015 ]. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2014 . under no. 44 , p. 122 , not illustrated. This painting is the view of a neighbor’s garden from Rousseau’s studio window in Barbizon. Michel Schulman records a fully worked drawing of the same subject and size, now in a private collection (Shulman, 1997 , catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre graphique , no. 607, illustrated). Stanley Moss, Riverdale, New York, purchased from above; his sale, Sotheby’s New York, February 9 , 1999 , lot 17 ;