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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.222
People
Unidentified Artist
After 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
Man with a Pipe
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1868-1919
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230065

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46.36 x 38.42 cm (18 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: G. Courbet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mme. X, Paris, Sold at Drouot, 1919. Object was no. 17
Scott & Fowles, New York, Sold to Winthrop, 1924.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Scott and Fowles, 1924, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.222
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
  • Charles C. Cunningham, Jr and Susan D. Peters, Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1976), p. 92; note in entry no. 55
  • 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Entitled The Mill" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1989), Unpublished, passim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

Exhibition History

  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944

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