1943.788: Portrait of the Artist with a Pipe

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

Permissions

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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)
• Oliver Tostmann, Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 2025), p. 138, fig. 32.1

Exhibition History

• Exposition des oeuvres de Gustave Courbet, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/01/1882 - 05/31/1882
• Ausstellung Gustave Courbet, Galerie Wertheim, Berlin, 09/28/1930 - 10/26/1930
• The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• Body Image in French Art and Visual Culture (18th and 19th Centuries), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

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