Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase

Modern Art

c. 1904

Henri Rousseau
French, 1844-1910

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Artist: Henri Rousseau
Title: Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase
Origin: France
Date: 1899–1909
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "Henri Rousseau"
Dimensions: 13 × 9 1/2 in. (33 × 24.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1953.6

The World’s Masters: Henri Rousseau (London: The Studio, 1936), p. XV.
Jean Bouret, Henri Rousseau, trans. by Martin Leake (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1961), pp. 211 (ill.), 257, no. 140, as Fleurs et dahlia dans un vase, and Dahlia and Flowers in a Vase.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 406.
Giovanni Artieri, L’opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere (Milan: Rizzoli, 1969), p. 120, fig. N.9a, as Vaso con Margherite e Dalia.
Giovanni Artieri and Dora Vallier, L’opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere (Milan: Rizzoli, 1969), p. 120, fig. 9a.
Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 100.
Carolyn Keay, Henri Rousseau: Le Douanier (New York: Rizzoli, 1976), pp. 140 and 181, fig. 40.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 68, no. 3F12.

M. Knoedler and Company, by 1936. Emily Crane Chadbourne (died 1972), Stone Ridge, NY and Washington, D.C., by 1952 [R of O #13246, dated December 3, 1952]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.

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