Théodore Rousseau
The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau

CultureFrench
Titles
  • The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau
Date1864
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 35 1/2 × 46 in. (90.2 × 116.8 cm)
Frame: 46 1/4 × 56 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (117.5 × 144.1 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment
Object number72.87
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
220 McNair Gallery
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ProvenanceSir W. C. van Horne and Lady van Horne, Montreal; [Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris, 1967, at Sotheby sale, "Barbizon and French 19th Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture," November 29, 1967, lot.144, listed under "Clairière dans la Forêt"]; purchased by MFAH, 1972.
Exhibition History"A Permanent Heritage: Major Works from the Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 1980–January 4, 1981.

"Millet, Corot and the School of Barbizon," Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan, April 19–May 18, 1980.

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Theodore Rousseau Retrospective," Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, New York, February 6–March 16, 2002.

"From Corot to Monet, Painters and Photographers in the Forest of Fontainebleau," National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., March 2–June 8, 2008; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 13–October 19, 2008.

"Open-Air Painting," Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, February 5–May 12, 2013.

"Theodore Rousseau," The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 21–September 11, 2016; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, October 13, 2016–January 8, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed, recto at lower left: "TH Rousseau"

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