Outskirts of Paris
c. 1897–1905
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Outskirts of Paris, c. 1897–1905. Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910). Oil on fabric; framed: 56.5 x 65.5 x 8 cm (22 1/4 x 25 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 37.8 x 45.8 cm (14 7/8 x 18 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.951 Rousseau once said to Picasso: "We are the two greatest artists of this era, you in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style."
- Maker/Artist
- Rousseau, Henri
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 56.5 x 65.5 x 8 cm (22 1/4 x 25 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 37.8 x 45.8 cm (14 7/8 x 18 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: Henri Rousseau
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1929.951
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, Primitive Art and Folk Art, Paris, Société des Artistes Indépendants. 27ème Exposition (1911), probably no. 7, La Seine à Meudon (according to handwriting on stretcher the work was in this exhibition)., French Art since Eighteen Hundred (1929), in CMA Bulletin 16 (1929): 166 (repr.), 169., Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1936), no. 342, Environs de Paris., <em>Henri Rousseau</em>. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Boston, Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Modern Art Society, Cincinnati, OH; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH. (1942-43), 35 (repr.)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
Have a concern, a correction, or something to add?
