HENRI ROUSSEAU. 1844-1910

221 THE POET AND HIS MUSE. PORTRAIT OF APOLLINAIRE AND MARIE LAURENCIN. 1909

Oil on canvas. 131 X 97 cm. Inv. No 3334 Signed and dated lower right: H. Rousseau 1909 The models for the picture were the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and the artist Marie Laurencin. A variant (146 X 97), now in the Kunstmuseum in Basle, was also painted in 1909. The Pushkin Museum picture was bought by Apollinaire from the artist for 300 francs.

Provenance: from 1909 The G. Apollinaire Collection, Paris; until 1918 The S. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; 1918—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1911 Paris (Salon des Independents), Cat. 43; 1964 Rotterdam

Bibliography: Кат. собр. С. Щукина 1913, No 202, pp. 44-45; Тугендхольд 1914, p. 45; Перцов 1921, No 202, p. 115; Reau 1929, No 1093; W. Uhde, "Henri Rousseau et les primitifs modernes", L'Amour de I'Art, 1933, 8, p. 140; Cahiers d'Art 1950, p. 347; Musee de Moscou 1963, p. 186, ill.; L'Opera completa di Rousseau il Doganiere, presentazione di G. Artieri, apparati critic! et filologici di D. Vallier, Milano, 1969, ill. 133

221 THE POET AND HIS MUSE. PORTRAIT OF APOLLINAIRE AND MARIE LAURENCIN. 1909

222 JAGUAR ATTACKING A HORSE

Oil on canvas. 90 X 116 cm. Inv. No 3351

Signed lower right: Henri Rousseau

Provenance: until 1918 The S. Shchukin Collection,

Moscow; 1918—48 The Museum of Modern Western

Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine

Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1964 Rotterdam, Cat. Ill; 1972 Otterloo,

Cat. 52

Bibliography: Кат. собр. С. Щукина 1913, No 231,

pp. 44—45; Тугендхольд 1914, p. 45; Перцов 1921,

No 231, p. 115; Ternovetz 1925, p. 484, ill.; Reau 1929,

No 1094; Cahiers d'Art 1950, p. 347; L'Opera com-

pleta di Rousseau il Doganiere, presentations, di G. Ar-

tieri, apparati critici et filologici di D. Vallier, Milano,

1969, ill. 169

222 JAGUAR ATTACKING A HORSE

223 VIEW OF THE MONTSOURIS PARK

Oil on canvas. 46 X 38 cm. Inv. No 3332

Signed lower left: H. Rousseau

Rousseau repeatedly painted the Montsouris Park.

Most of his landscapes with this motif date from about 1895. In all probability, the Moscow picture relates to the same period.

Provenance: 1918 The S. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; 1918—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibition: 1967—68 Odessa, Kharkov, Cat. No 30 Bibliography: Кат. собр. С. Щукина 1913, No 199, pp. 44—45; Тугендхольд 1914, p. 45; Перцов 1921, No 199, p. 115; Reau 1929, No 1095; W. Uhde, "Henri Rousseau et les primitifs modernes", L''Amour de I'Art, 1933, 8, p. 201; Cahiers d'Art 1950, p. 347; Musee de Moscou 1963, p. 188, ill.

223 VIEW OF THE MONTSOURIS PARK