The Descent of the Cattle in the Haut-Jura Mountains
Théodore Rousseau (1812 - 1867), 1834-1835
oil on canvas, 259 cm x 162 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0286
- Dimensions
- 259 cm x 162 cm, 298 cm x 200 cm, 14 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist, Paris, to Ary Scheffer, Paris; after his death in 1858, probably inherited by his daughter, Cornelia Marjolin-Scheffer, Paris; sold by Perreau to Goupil & Cie, Paris for FRF 12.000, 24 October 1881; sold by Goupil & Cie, The Hague (no. 15692, Descente du Jura) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 7600, 9 February 1882; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Théodore Rousseau
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 381-384
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 283
Bouret, J., L'école de Barbizon et le paysage Français au XIXe siècle, Lausanne, 2016, p. 75, 241
Keune, Katrien, Boon, J.J., Boitelle, René, Degradation of Emerald green in oil paint and its contribution to the rapid change in colour of the Descente des vaches (1834-1835) painted by Théodore Rousseau
Bätschmann, Oskar, Gianfreda, S., Koos, Marianne, Praised and Ridiculed : French painting 1820-1880, Munich, 2017, p. 62
Greub, Suzanne, Towards impressionism : landscape painting from Corot to Monet, Munich, 2017, p. 29
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., The Mesdag Collection, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 80-81, 85, 94
Presutti, Kelly, Land into landscape : art, environment, and the making of modern France, New Haven, 2024, pp. 124-132
