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TITLE:
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Marsh on the Moors, Springtime
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PERIOD:
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19th century
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on panel
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MARKINGS:
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Signed at lower left
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SIZE:
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h: 32.5 x w: 53.5 cm / h: 12.8 x w: 21.1 in
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REGION:
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French
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STYLE:
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Barbizon School (1830s-1870s)
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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DESCRIPTION:
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Marsh on the Moors, Springtime has been traditionally identified as a site in the Landes (a barren, marshy region in southwestern France where Rousseau worked alongside Jules Dupré during 1844), presumably because the flat plain and string of cows in the present painting specifically recall Rousseau's famous Marsh in the Landes (Musée d'Orsay) which was shown at the influential Expositions Universelles of both 1855 and 1867 and sold for a staggering sum in 1881 when it was purchased for the French nation. The distinctive church on the horizon in this work and the steeply roofed-barn to the right, however, as well as the assertively pink-tinged sky, suggest that the site is a more northern one, perhaps in the region of L'Isle-Adam, where Rousseau worked frequently during the late 1840s -- the probable date for this painting - or further east in Picardy, also known for its expansive plains. A preparatory drawing for Marsh on the Moors, Springtime which has been scaled for enlargement, is part of the Donation Granville in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, where it is titled Troupeau dans la Plaine de Chailly; but the Chailly plain (outside Barbizon) has no distinctive pools of water or marshland, and the nearby churches at Chailly and Arbonne are of different form.
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PROVENANCE:
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Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, his sale, 30 April 1877, no. 81, 17,000 fr.; Georges de Porto-Riche, Paris, his sale, 14 May 1890, no. 29, 16,200 fr.; Louis Sarlin, Paris, his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 2 March 1918, no. 63; John Levy Galleries, New York; O'Brien and Son, Chicago; Thomas C. Dennehy, Chicago, by 1930.
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LITERATURE:
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Prosper Dorbec, 'Exposition des 'Vingt peintres du XIXème siècle' à la Galerie Georges Petit,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 19 July 1910, ill. p. 19; Maurice Hamel, 'Exposition de Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'école française' in Les Arts, August 1910, repro. p. 13. Pierre Miquel and Galerie Brame & Lorenceau will reproduce this painting in the Catalogue raisonné of Théodore Rousseau’s paintings now in preparation.
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EXHIBITION HISTORY:
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Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'école française. Vingt peintres du XIXème siècle, 1910, no. 140.
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