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Hikers climbing up to a Mountain Chalet
Henri RousseauLinkedCulture matchlcp-e5c62f3f38ed
- Date
- c. 1888
- Medium
- Black crayon, with graphite, heightened with white chalk and white pencil, on tan wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 186405
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
When Rousseau was a toll operator for one of Paris’s city gates, he made the decision to become an artist. With no academic training, he started copying works at the Musée du Louvre in 1884 and two years later exhibited his works with the Neo-Impressionists at the Salon des Indépendants. In this drawing Rousseau’s lack of formal training is evident in the flattened forms and odd spatial relations of the landscape. These idiosyncrasies would inspire artists such as Vasily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Mme. Roman, Paris, before 1926; given to Mlle. Lucie Gorse (later Mme. Jean-Paul Cazard), between 1929 and 1933; by descent to the Cazard-Gorse family, to 2000 [according to Certigny 1984 and London 2000 auc. cat.]; sold, Christie’s, London, July 29, 2000, lot 520, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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