The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau

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Artist Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)French, 1812–1867

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

On view

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

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.
Published References Thomas P. Lee, "A Barbizon Masterpiece," The Museum of fine arts, Houston Bulletin, Volume IV, No. 4, Winter 1974, pp. 62-67: reproduced at p.62, detailed in color on cover. John Minor Wisdom, Jr., "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Guide to the Collection," intro. by William C. Agee, Entry No. 177, p.101-102 (1981) Marzio, Peter, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Permanent Legacy, Hudson Hills Press,New York, 1989, p. 174, illus. p. 175 Edgar Peters Bowron and Mary G. Morton, Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 144, illus. p. 145 Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, published by the Museum of Art, Ehime; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum; and the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japan Association of Art Museums, 1999. (Exhibition catalogue in Japanese only.) p. 170, illus. p. 171, cat. no. 59. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed, recto at lower left: "TH Rousseau"

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