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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.788
People
Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Title
Portrait of the Artist with a Pipe
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1847
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297927

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on white wove paper
Dimensions
18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
frame: 52.1 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm (20 1/2 x 18 x 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Courbet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 28, 1882 no. 47 (unsold,per annotation in sale cat.)]. Possibly Jules-Antoine Castagnary, Paris. Claude Roger-Marx, Paris, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, May 1931 [through Martin Birnbaum], 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
1943.788
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alexandre Estignard, Gustave Courbet, sa vie, ses oeuvres, Delagrange-Louys (Besançon, 1896), p. 152
  • Georges Riat, Gustave Courbet, peintre, Henri Floury (Paris, 1906), pg. 46
  • Charles Léger, Courbet, Les Editions G. Crès & Cie. (Paris, France, 1929), pg. 217
  • Charles Léger, "Documents inédits sur Gustave Courbet", L'Amour de L'Art (October 1931), 10, pg. 390, fig. 3
  • Charles Léger, Courbet et son temps, Les Editions Universelles (Paris, France, 1948), pp. 30-31
  • Marie-Thérèse Lemoyne de Forges, Suzy Delbourgo, and Lola Faillant, Autoportraits de Courbet., Editions des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1973), pg. 27, fig. 32
  • Bruno Foucart, G. Courbet, Flammarion and Crown Publishers Inc. (Paris, 1977), pg. 15, repro.
  • Margret Stuffmann, "Courbet Zeichnungen", Courbet und Deutschland, DuMont (Cologne (Köln), 1978), pg. 339, fig. 309a
  • Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, La Bibliothèque des Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978), pg. 288, no. 22, repr.
  • 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. 644, fig. 13
  • "L'imagerie du visage de Courbet", Visages, Visages, Musée Maison Natale Gustave Courbet (Ornans, Summer 1984), dossier 1, no. 22, repro.
  • Pierre Courthion, L'Opera Completa di Courbet, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1985), repr. p. 135
  • Michael Fried, Courbet's Realism, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 1990), pg. 109, fig. 50
  • Bruno Foucart, Courbet, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1995), repr. p. 7
  • Pierre Georgel, Courbet: le poème de la nature, Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1995), repr. p. 29
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 30 under "Black chalk"
  • 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 (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 9, repr. (color)
  • Valérie Bajou, Courbet, Société Nouvelle Adam Biro (Paris, 2003), p. 51
  • Niklaus Manuel Güdel, Anne-Sophie Poirot, and Philippe Clerc, Gustave Courbet: Les dessins, Les cahiers dessinés (Paris, 2019), no. 30, repr. p. 134, pp. 53, 135, 149, 349, 353, 360, repr. p. 40 (detail)

Exhibition History

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