Gustave Courbet: French: La Pauvresse de village ou La Femme à la chèvre ou La Fagotière
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Artist |
Gustave Courbet
(1819–1877) |
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Alternative names |
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet |
Description |
French sculptor, painter and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
10 June 1819 |
31 December 1877 |
Location of birth/death |
Category:Ornans near Besançon |
La Tour-de-la-Peilz |
Work location |
Category:Ornans (between 1819 and 1872 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Paris (between 1840 and 1872 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Normandy (1841), Fontainebleau (1840s), Belgium- Netherlands (1846), Montpellier (1854), Canton of Bern (1854), Honfleur (between 1850 and 1860 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Frankfurt (between 1858 and 1859 date QS:P,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Saintes (1862-1863), Étretat (1865), Category:Trouville-sur-Mer (1865), Category:Deauville (1866), Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (1867), Munich (1869), Switzerland (between 1873 and 1877 date QS:P,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q34618 |
Title |
French: La Pauvresse de village ou La Femme à la chèvre ou La Fagotière label QS:Lfr,"La Pauvresse de village ou La Femme à la chèvre ou La Fagotière" |
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
Date |
1866 date QS:P571,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 86.2 cm (33.9 in); width: 127.1 cm (50 in) dimensions QS:P2048,86.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,127.1U174728 |
Object history |
Sold by the artist to M. Laurent Richard, 1867, for 4,000 FF. Jules-Antoine Castagnary (1830-1888), Paris. Collection Dreyfus, Paris. His sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 7-8, 1876, lot 4 (titled Effet de Neige) for 2,550 FF. Goupil, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Daupias (acquired from the above). Private collection (by 1906). Hugo Nathan, Frankfurt (by 1921). Martha Nathan, Frankfurt and Switzerland (by 1935-36). Stored by Martha Nathan with Justin K. Thannhauser during World War II and placed by Thannhauser in the National Gallery in Washington DC, February 1942. Sold by Justin K. Thannhauser on behalf of Martha Nathan in 1947. Major L.M. Bloomfield (1906-1984), Québec (by 1954). Private collection, Montréal (by 1979 and 1987). Galerie Schmit, Paris (by 1989 and 1995). Private collection, Switzerland (by 1994). Private collection (by 2007). |
Exhibition history |
- Paris, Rond-Point du Pont de l'Alma, Champs-Elysées, Exposition des Œuvres de M. G. Courbet, 1867, no. 38.
- Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition de Paysages impressionnistes, 1920, no. 3 (titled La Fagotière).
- Zürich, Kunsthaus, Gustave Courbet, 1935-36, no. 92.
- Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Le Grand Siècle, 1936, no. 12.
- Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Pintura Francesa de David a nuestros días, 1939, no. 26.
- Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Exposição de pintura francesa, seculos XIX e XX, 1940 (as per a label on the reverse).
- San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, The painting of France, since the French revolution, 1940-41, no. 15.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, 1941, no. 20.
- Los Angeles, County Museum, The Painting of France since the French Revolution, 1941, no. 20.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of Everyday life, Genre Painting in Europe, 1500-1900, 1954, no. 73.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Gustave Courbet, 1977-78, no. 103.
- Paris, Grand Palais and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Impressionnisme, Les origines 1859-1869, 1994-95, no. 46.
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Inscriptions |
Date and signature bottom left:
66 / G. Courbet.
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Source/Photographer |
Sotheby's, Paris, 24 March 2022, lot 115 |
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