The Eagle’s Nest in the Forest of Fontainebleau
[None known at this time.]
Commissioned from the artist by Goupil et Cie, Paris, 1880 [1];
Given by Findlay Galleries, Kansas City, MO, through John Levy Galleries, New York, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1930 [2].
NOTES:
[1] See inscription and stamp on bottom of etching. Goupil owned the Théodore Rousseau painting, Cows Descending the Hills at Sunset (or The Ravine; Nelson-Atkins, 30-11), upon which the etching is based, between April 3 and June 23, 1880. This may have been when they commissioned the etching from Chauvel. It is possible that the etching accompanied the painting as it moved between collectors and dealers until 1930. See the painting’s provenance here: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/24339/cows-descending-the-hills-at-sunset.
[2] See letters of authentication for the related painting from Findlay Galleries and John Levy Galleries to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, April 18 and 21, 1930, NAMA curatorial files.
Henri Beraldi, Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle (Paris: Libraire L. Conquet, 1886), no. 92, pp. 4:142, 158, as le Nid de l’aigle, d’après Th. Rousseau.
Loys Delteil, Théophile Chauvel: Catalogue Raisonné de Son Œuvre Gravé et Lithographié, avec Eaux-fortes Originales et Reproductions (Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1900), 16, 66, 82, as Nid de l’Aigle.
George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460–1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 295, as by unknown artist, after Rousseau, Cows Descending the Hills at Sunset.
