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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.140
People
Style of Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Title
Bridge in a Landscape
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Bridge in a Gorge / Pont dans un Gorge
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1873
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228423

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.34 x 54.29 cm (28 7/8 x 21 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscription l.l.: G. Courbet.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miss Adelaide M. deGroot, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1956. Through Charles C. Cunningham

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Adelaide M. de Groot
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.140
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978), repr. in b/w no. 1006, p. 219
  • Sydney J. Freedberg and Konrad Oberhuber, "A Museum Collection of Forgeries", Art Research News (1983), vol. 2, no. 2-3, repr. in b/w, p. 25
  • 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Entitled The Mill" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1989), Unpublished, passim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. 337

Exhibition History

  • Art: Authentic and Fake, Graham Gallery, New York, 01/01/1967 - 12/31/1967

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