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Still Life with Ham

Philippe Rousseau  (French, Paris 1816–1887 Acquigny)

Date:
1870s
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92.1 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1982
Accession Number:
1982.320

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 809

  • Gallery Label

    This work of the 1870s combines Rousseau's admiration for eighteenth-century still life painting with a Realist emphasis on subjects from modern life. It is possibly the painting exhibited in the Salon of 1877 as "Le Déjeuner."

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (on envelope) Monsieur Ph. Rousseau. / à Acquigny / Eure; (on newspaper) [FI]GARO

  • Provenance

    Pearson, Paris (in 1927; his sale, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, October 18, 1927, no. 59, apparently bought in for 2,550 marks); private collection, Paris (until 1970; sold in March to Watteau); [André Watteau, Paris, 1970; sold in May to Humann]; Christian Humann, Paris (1970–d. 1981; his estate, 1981–82, sold to Brame and Lorenceau); [Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, 1982; sold to MMA]

  • Exhibition History

    Paris. Salon. May 1, 1877–?, no. 1852 (as "Le déjeuner", lent by M. de la Penha, possibly this picture).

    Amsterdam. Van Gogh Museum. "Philippe Rousseau, 1816–1887," September 10–November 14, 1993, no. 22 (as "Still life with ham").

  • References

    Albert Mérat. Le Petit Salon 1877. Paris, 1877, p. 22 [possibly this picture].

    "La XIe biennale internationale des antiquaires at the Grand Palais, Paris." Burlington Magazine 124 (September 1982), ill. p. v.

    Charles S. Moffett in Manet, 1832–1883. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1983, pp. 212, 217, ill. p. 213 [French ed., Paris, 1983], dates it about 1870 [the French catalogue incorrectly dates it about 1850].

    Ronald de Leeuw. Philippe Rousseau, 1816–1887. Exh. cat., Van Gogh Museum. Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 55, 63, 69 no. 22, fig. 61 (color), cites Rousseau's signature within the address of the letter as an example of his idiosyncratic placement of signatures in his still lifes; remarks that this purchase was part of the international recurrence of interest in Rousseau.



  • Notes

    There is a pastel still life by Philippe Rousseau in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, that includes the same silver cup depicted in this work [see "Van Gogh Museum Acquisitions, 1986–1991", Amsterdam, 1991].

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