PHILIPPE ROUSSEAU (PARIS 1816-1887 ACQUIGNY) - photo 1
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PHILIPPE ROUSSEAU (PARIS 1816-1887 ACQUIGNY)

Lot 206
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513574
Lot 206 | PHILIPPE ROUSSEAU (PARIS 1816-1887 ACQUIGNY)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
PHILIPPE ROUSSEAU (PARIS 1816-1887 ACQUIGNY)
The artist's studio
signed and dated 'Ph. Rousseau. 71' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
44 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (113 x 154 cm.)




Provenance

Baronne Nathaniel de Rothschild (1825-1899), Paris, likely acquired from the artist, thence by descent;
Confiscated from Henri de Rothschild (1872-1947), Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and transferred to the Jeu de Paume following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 446).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section at Neuschwanstein Castle and returned to France after 13 November 1945;
Restituted to Henri de Rothschild on 3 May 1946.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1982, lot 50.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1982, lot 50.
Acquired by the father of the present owners.



Literature

R. de Leeuw, Philippe Rousseau: 1816-1887, Zwolle, 1993, pp. 37, 68, fig. 32, no. 7 illustrated.
R. de Leeuw, 'In the light of Chardin: Chardinesque still lifes by Philippe Rousseau and some of his contemporaries,' Van Gogh Museum Journal, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 111-112, 115, fig. 14, illustrated.
Artist:Philippe Rousseau (1816 - 1887)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Romanticism
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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