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Gatherer on a Path in a Landscape

Artist Théodore Rousseau French, 1812–1867

Datecirca 1836–1840

MediumOil on cradled panel

Dimensions16 3/4 × 25 3/4 × 1 in. (42.5 × 65.4 × 2.5 cm)
frame: 23 × 32 × 2 5/8 in. (58.4 × 81.3 × 6.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Joan Huntley

Object number2021.15.7

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated France, ca. 1836-1840. James Duncan, London (1834–1905); [Goupil & Cie, April 15, 1886, as Paysage Femme portant du bois]; Desfossés [1]. [Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Brittany, January 21, 1887]; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, January 1887] [2]; Edwin Thorne (d.1889), Millbrook, New York, February 7, 1887–1889; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mr. Andrews, by 1892. Theodore M. Davis, New York (1895–1915); on loan to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1915-1930; gifted to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1930; [Parke-Bernet, New York, March 27–28, 1956, no. 113, as Evening]; Helen Lurie, New York; [Christie’s New York, April 21, 2004, lot 89, as Porteuse de fagots]; Dr. Joan Huntley, Chapel Hill, NC, 2016-2019; bequeathed to NCMA, 2019.

[1] Getty Provenance Index: Goupil Stock Book 11, Page 153, Row 4, Stock no. 17765
[2] Getty Provenance Index: Knoedler Stock Book 4, Stock No. 5521, Page 71, Row 46
Published ReferencesM. Schulman, Théodore Rousseau, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris, 1999), vol. 2, no. 583, illus.

“19th Century European Art including Barbizon, Realist and…” (auction catalogue) (New York: Christie’s, April 22, 2004), lot 89, as Porteuse de fagots.

Rolande and Pierre Miquel, Théodore Rousseau, 1812–1867 (Paris: Somogy, 2010), 137, illus. (color), as Sur le chemin de Chailly, called Evening.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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