Philippe Rousseau

Rousseau was profoundly influenced by the atmospheric still lifes of Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), whom the artist and other French painters like François Bonvin (1817-1877) rediscovered in the mid-1800s. A comparison with Chardin's work, also shown in this gallery, indicates that Rousseau similarly depicted foodstuffs on a simple kitchen table, concentrating on rich textures and restrained colors.

The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 12, 1980-January 18, 1981).

The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Year in Review: 1980

Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 26-October 9, 1983).

Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink

Philippe Rousseau. Van Gogh Museum (organizer) (September 10-November 14, 1993).

Praised and Ridiculed: French Painting 1820 - 1880. Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (organizer) (November 10, 2017-January 28, 2018).

Praised and Ridiculed: French Painting 1820 - 1880

Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (October 11, 2024-January 5, 2025) https://chrysler.org/exhibition/farm-to-table-art-food-and-identity-in-the-age-of-impressionism/; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (January 31-May 4, 2025) https://fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/farm-to-table/; The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (June 13-September 21, 2025); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (October 23, 2025-January 19, 2026).

Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism

CMA. Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France (1979), 34, 42, 75 (repr.), 76, 90, no. 26.

CMA; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-82). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg. 150, no. 117 (repr.).

CMA; Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, Lakewood, Ohio; Beachwood (Ohio) Museum; Toledo Museum of Art. Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink (1983-84), 9-10, fig. 6, 47.

Southampton, Parrish Art Museum; New York, National Academy of Design. In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition (1986), no. 74 (repr.).

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum. Nineteenth-Century Masters 1: Philippe Rousseau 1816-1887 (1993), 63, no. 23, fig. 62.

A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a still life of asparagus emerging from a dark background. To the right, a bundle of white spears with purple tips, tied with twine, sits in a shallow brown dish. Loose stalks spill across the foreground. Behind stands a dark green glazed jug. Metal tongs and a handwritten signature occupy the lower left. Light from the left highlights the thick application of pigment and earthy tones.

(Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 9-10, 1977 (no. 100), sold to Galerie Galerie Brame-Lorenceau)

(Galerie Brame-Lorenceau, Paris, sold to Noah L. Butkin and Muriel S. Butkin)

Noah L. [1918-1980] and Muriel S. Butkin [1915-2008], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin

Still Life with Asparagus

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