Fishing Boats at Granville

Prints and Drawings

c. 1851–52

Théodore Rousseau
French, 1812-1867

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Théodore Rousseau
Title: Fishing Boats at Granville
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1821–1852
Medium: Black crayon and graphite, with stumping, and touches of scraping, over traces of red chalk, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 31.4 × 48 cm (12 3/8 × 18 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1969.270
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1976), no. 5F11.

Paris, Hector Brame, “Rousseau,” 1938, cat. 54.
Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, “Jongkind and Pre-Impressionists,” December 17, 1976-February 13, 1977, cat. 98; also traveled to the Smith College Museum of Art, October 14-December 5, 1976.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, “Die Freunde Der Natur, Barbizon und Seine Künstler, February 2-April 21, 1996.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 2436]; possibly sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 29, 1868, lot 144. Lucien Guiraud (died 1954) [according to dealer invoice in curatorial file]. Sold by Hector Brame, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1969.

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