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Trees at Argenteuil

Artist Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812 - 1867)
Date19th century
MediumBrown ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 9 5/16 × 11 3/4 inches (23.65 × 29.85 cm)
Framed: 17 × 21 × 1 1/4 inches (43.18 × 53.34 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/69
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 89, as Trees at Argenteuil

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 91, as Trees at Argenteuil.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no. 91, as Trees at Argenteuil.

Provenance

Théodore Rousseau (1812 – 1867), France, December 22, 1867;

 

Purchased at his posthumous sale, Vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Théodore Rousseau, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 27- 30, 1868, lot 10;

 

Peter H. Deitsch, New York, 1955;

Milton McGreevy (d. 1981), Shawnee Mission, Kansas, by July 23, 1981;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

Published References

Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Théodore Rousseau (Paris: Impr. de J. Claye, 1868).

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 43, as Trees at Argenteuil

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 131, 203, (repro.), as Trees at Argenteuil.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 209-10, (repro.), as Trees at Argenteuil.

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