Pastoral Landscape

Artist Alexandre Desgoffe (French, 1805 - 1882)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1845-1855

Dimensions25 1/2 × 31 7/8 in. (64.8 × 81 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor

Object number

1922.39

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33

Published ReferencesGodwin, Blake-More, Catalogue of European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, p. 184, repr. p. 185. (as Rousseau).

Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 95A, Sept. 1941, p. 1467, repr. p. 1464. (as Rousseau).

Dunlop, R. O., Landscape Painting, Ma Yüan to Picasso, London, 1954, pl. 30. (as Roussea).

Foucart, J., "Paysagistes et petits maîtres," Art de France, IV, 1964, p. 348.

Sutton, Denys, "Nineteenth-Century Painting: Trends and Cross-Currents," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 487, repr. fig. 2, p. 486. (as Rousseau).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 145, pl. 224. (as Rousseau)

Talbot, William S., "Some French Landscapes: 1779-1842," Bulletin, Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 65, no. 3, Mar. 1978, p. 89, repr. fig. 18 (as Rousseau)

Honour, Hugh, Romanticism, New York, 1979, pp. 117, 385, repr. fig. 69. (as Rousseau)

Exhibition HistoryToledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1946, and The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1947, The Spirit of Modern France 1745-1946. An Essay on Painting in Society, no. 33. (as Rousseau).

Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Toronto, Two Cities Collect, 1948.

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, French Painting from David to Courbet, 1950, no. 85, repr. (as Rousseau).

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Corot and His Contemporaries, 1959, repr. (as Roussea).

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Barbizon Revisited, 1963, no. 90, repr. (as Rousseau).

Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900, 1969, no. 75, repr. (as Rousseau).

Comparative ReferencesSee also Aubrun, Mari Madeleine, "Un grand méconnu, pionnier du naturalisme: Alexandre Desgoffe (1805-1882)," Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art francais, Annee 1983, 1985, pp. 117-160, esp. no. 325, fig. 54.