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Source Description
Rousseau worked on the Normandy coast early in his career but also studied the sea on a visit to the Landes region in southwestern France in 1844. Here, he depicts a luminous view looking out across expansive marshes with sails visible on the horizon. Technical analysis of a cross section of this painting has demonstrated that Rousseau was using the recently discovered pigment emerald green.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
35806
label
A Swamp in the Landes
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
35806
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
A Swamp in the Landes
description
Rousseau worked on the Normandy coast early in his career but also studied the sea on a visit to the Landes region in southwestern France in 1844. Here, he depicts a luminous view looking out across expansive marshes with sails visible on the horizon. Technical analysis of a cross section of this painting has demonstrated that Rousseau was using the recently discovered pigment emerald green.
provenance
Boyard Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Laurent-Richard Collection Sale, Paris, April 7, 1873, no. 51; Laurent Richard Collection Sale, Paris, 1886, no. 60; William. H. Fuller Sale, New York, 1898, no. 24; Isidor Wormser Sale, New York, American Art Association, 1917, no. 109; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
after 1844
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
41.6
height
56.7
depth
0.3
dimensionsRaw
H: 16 3/8 × W: 22 5/16 × D: 1/8 in. (41.59 × 56.67 × 0.32 cm); Framed H: 30 1/16 × W: 36 1/8 × D: 6 1/8 in. (76.36 × 91.76 × 15.56 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] signed in red in lower left: Th. Rousseau
med
oil on panel
creator_ids
7239
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1955
2113
2674
366
2749
3287
3300
3652
3818
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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