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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.787
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People
Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877
La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Title
Artist at his Easel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1847-1848(?)
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Black chalk with traces of charcoal on cream antique
laid paper; graphite outline on palette and lower edge
of coat lapels (later addition?)
Dimensions
55.4 x 33.5 cm (21 13/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Provenance
Juliette Courbet, sister of the artist; (Felix?) Gérard;
Claude Roger-Marx, Paris; acquired from him through
Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, September
1938 (Fr 82,500 for cat. nos. 10 and 11); his bequest to
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the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.787
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Alexandre Estignard, H[enri] Baron, sa vie, ses oeuvres,
Delagrange-Louys (Besançon, 1896), pp. 151-52
Georges Riat, Gustave Courbet, peintre, Henri Floury
(Paris, 1906), pp. 44, repro., 133, 386
Andre Fontainas, Courbet, F. Alcan (Paris, 1921), p. 85
Charles Léger, Courbet, Les Editions G. Crès & Cie.
(Paris, France, 1929), p. 129
Pierre Courthion, Courbet, Librairie Floury (Paris, 1931)
Regina Shoolman Slatkin and Charles E. Slatkin, Six
Centuries of French Master Drawings in America,
Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University
Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1950), p. 166, pl. 94
Marie-Thérèse Lemoyne de Forges, "Autoportraits de
Courbet.", La Revue du Louvre (Paris, 1972), 22, no. 6, p.
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455, fig. 5
Marie-Thérèse Lemoyne de Forges, Suzy Delbourgo,
and Lola Faillant, Autoportraits de Courbet., Editions
des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1973), no. 42, repro.
Bruno Foucart, G. Courbet, Flammarion and Crown
Publishers Inc. (Paris, 1977), repro, pg. 87
Margret Stuffmann, "Courbet Zeichnungen", Courbet
und Deutschland, DuMont (Cologne (Köln), 1978), pg.
326, fig. 2
Robert Fernier, La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet,
La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978),
vol. 2, p. 286, no. 17, repro.
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, "Into the Modern Era: The
Evolution of Realist and Naturalist Drawing.", The
Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawings, 18301900, Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1980),
pp. 25-27, fig. 39
Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski,
"The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine
(October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 133, fig.
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Michael Fried, "Painter into Painting: On Courbet's
'After Dinner at Ornans' and 'Stonebreakers'", Critical
Inquiry, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Summer
1982), 8, p. 631, fig. 7
"L'imagerie du visage de Courbet", Visages, Visages,
Musée Maison Natale Gustave Courbet (Ornans,
Summer 1984), dossier 1, fig.24
Martha Tedeschi, Great Drawings from The Art Institute
of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years..., The Art
Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press (Chicago, IL and
New York, NY, 1985), p. 138 (under no. 62)
Pierre Courthion, L'Opera Completa di Courbet, Rizzoli
Editore (Milan, Italy, 1985), repr. p. 134
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Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "Tonal Drawing and the Use of
Charcoal in Nineteenth Century France.", Drawing, The
Drawing Society (New York, March-April 1990), 11, no.
6, pg. 123, fig. 6
Michael Fried, Courbet's Realism , University of Chicago
Press (Chicago, 1990), pg. 95, repro. pg. 96
Bruno Foucart, Courbet, Flammarion (Paris, France,
1995), repr. p. 39
Sylvain Boyer, "Les autoportraits: Journal intime du
peintre.", Dossier de l'art, SFBD/Archeologia S.A (Dijon,
July 1997), 39, p. 34, repro.
Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la
recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet
d'art (April 2003), no. 379, pp. 34-45, p. 44
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), cat. no. 10, repr. (color)
Valérie Bajou, Courbet, Société Nouvelle Adam Biro
(Paris, 2003), repr. p. 51
Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection:
Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the
Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National
Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 41, cat. 28,
ill.
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 10, repr.
Fabrice Masanès, Gustave Courbet 1819-1877: The Last
of the Romantics, Taschen (Cologne, 2006), repr. p. 7
Ségolène Le Men, Courbet, Citadelles & Mazenod
(Paris, 2007), p. 50, fig. 33
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Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, The Most Arrogant Man in
France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century
Media Culture, Princeton University Press (Princeton
and Oxford, 2007), p. 37 and fig. 24
Deanna Petherbridge, The Primacy of Drawing:
Histories and Theories of Practice, Yale University
Press (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 137, pl. 86
Heather McPherson, "The Artist in His Studio: Dress,
Milieu and Masculine Identity", Interior Portraiture and
Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914, ed. Temma
Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen, Ashgate
Publishing Company (Burlington, VT, 2011), pp. 83-99,
pp. 85, 87, repr. p. 86 as fig. 5.1 (listed p. ix as fig. 5.1)
Exhibition History
Salon de 1849, Palais des Tuileries, Paris, 06/15/1849 12/31/1849
Exhibition et vente de 40 tableaux et 4 dessins de
l'oeuvre de M. Gustave Courbet, Pavillon du Réalisme,
Paris, 01/01/1855 - 01/01/1855
Exposition des oeuvres de M. G. Courbet, Rond-Point
du Pont de l'Alma, Paris, 01/01/1867 - 01/01/1867
Exposition des oeuvres de Gustave Courbet, École
Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 01/01/1882 01/01/1882
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Exposition de Paris,
Paris, 04/15/1900 - 11/12/1900
A Century of French Drawings, from Prud'hon to
Picasso, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 01/01/1938 01/01/1938
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon,
Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery,
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London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
[email protected]
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