Théodore Rousseau Twilight

Théodore Rousseau
French
1812 - 1867
Twilight

signed TH. Rousseau (lower right)
oil on panel
panel: 16 7/16 by 24⅞ in.; 41.7 by 63.1 cm
framed: 16 ½ x 24 1/8 in.; 41.9 by 61.2 cm

Condition Report:
The panel is stable, in good condition, and cradled. The paint surface is stable and in good condition but lightly soiled. Upon close inspection, very fine patterns of craquelure notably to the upper half of the sky. Under UV light, scattered areas of retouching throughout the foreground, to the drinking cow, to aforementioned craquelure in the sky at center right; opaque varnish fluoresces green.

Catalogue Note:
Offered in an 18th-century French Louis XIV frame.

Provenance:
Collection Henry Vever
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, no. 1508
Collection of Van Praet, Brussels
Collection of Garnier, Paris
His Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3 and 4 December 1894, no. 73 (as Paysage. (Soleil couchant.))
H.S. Henry Collection, American Art Association, New York
J. Montgomery and the Honorable Hugh J. Grant, acquired at the above sale
Thence by descent in the family
with Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2015