1956.140: Bridge in a Landscape
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1956.140
- People
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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
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- inscription: Inscription l.l.: G. Courbet.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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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Entitled The Mill" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1989), Unpublished, passim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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