Although this work is not strictly a “new discovery”-it has been on loan to Minneapolis and on display there since 1979-its existence has been overlooked in the recent literature about Rousseau where it has been described as lost. View of Mont Blanc, Seen from La Faucille is the painting currently on loan from an American private collection to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1 For the artist’s close friend and early biographer, Alfred Sensier, this picture was “one of the most beautiful pages of modern art.” 2 Another early commentator, Théophile Silvestre, described the work as the artist’s “first emotion, and his last painting.” 3 View of Mont Blanc, indeed, may be seen as the crowning result of Rousseau’s obsessive research in the last years of his life. Private Collection (on loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts).Īt the 1867 Salon, Théodore Rousseau (1812–67) exhibited his panoramic View of Mont Blanc, Seen from La Faucille (fig. Théodore Rousseau, View of Mont Blanc, Seen from La Faucille, 1863-1867.
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