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Double-Leaf Doors

1790s

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Pierre Rousseau

(French, 1751–1829)

France, 18th century

Oil on wood

Framed: 407.7 x 166.4 x 12.7 cm (160 1/2 x 65 1/2 x 5 in.); Unframed: 274 x 63 cm (107 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)

Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1942.2.11.a

Location

not on view

Provenance
Said by Wildenstein & Co. (letter of January 19,1942) to have come from 193 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris (known at the time as 21 and 23 rue St. Dominique), a private house, supposedly built after plans by Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698—1782). Comte Hippolyte Terray, owner of the house from about 1830; Marquise de Belleuf (daughter of Comte Terray); Comte de Waresquiel; Arthur Veil-Picard; [Wildenstein & Co., Paris]; Grace Rainey Rogers, purchased in 1913. Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey, 1942 and 1944.
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 56, p. 132 - 140
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.2.11.a