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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.79
People
Studio of Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Previously attributed to ? Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Previously attributed to Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Title
A Stone Cutter
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Roadworker / Le Cantonnier / The Stone Cutter's Repast
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1875-1876
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228026

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.6 x 50.8 cm (24 1/4 x 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: G. Courbet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Rosenberg, Bought at public auction sale in Nice (before 1956)
Lawrence K. Marshall, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1964.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Laurence K. Marshall
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.79
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gustave Courbet, exh. cat., Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York (New York, NY, 1956), no. 3, repr.
  • [Unidentified article], Arts in Virginia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Richmond, VA, Winter 1972), p. 23, repr. p. 20
  • Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978), vol. II, no. 805, pp. 144-145, repr.
  • Courbet und Deutschland, exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany, 1979), repr. in b/w p. 562
  • Pierre Courthion, L'Opera Completa di Courbet, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1985), no. 808
  • Anik Morrow, "Gustave Courbet: Materials, Techniques, and Problems with the Attribution of the Painting Entitled The Mill" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1989), Unpublished, passim
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 103, repr. as no. 335

Exhibition History

  • Gustave Courbet, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York, 01/16/1956 - 02/11/1956

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