ID 1105823
Lot 84 | GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
Le Château de Chillon, Lake Geneva
signed 'G. Courbet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
27 ¼ x 37 5⁄8 in. (69.2 x 95.7 cm.)
Provenance
M. de Sesteguy (†); Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 April 1892, lot 8.
with Galerie Durand-Ruel and Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris.
with Galerie Lambert, Paris, by 5 June 1920.
with Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Charles Jackson Booth and Jessie Louise Booth, Ottawa, and by descent to
Charles Rowley Booth and Marjorie Annette McKinnon, Ottawa, until at least 1960.
Private Collection, Ottawa.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1998, lot 135, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Valemont, 'Les Grandes Ventes,' Le Figaro, Paris, 10 June 1920, p. 3.
La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, Paris, 31 August 1920, p. 122.
R. Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: catalogue raisonné, II, Lausanne, 1978, pp. 214-215, no. 993, illustrated, where erroneously catalogued as belonging to the National Gallery of Canada.
P. Courthion, L'opera completa di Courbet, Milan, 1985, pp. 128-129, no. 986, illustrated, where incorrectly catalogued as belonging to the National Gallery of Canada.
P. Courthion, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Courbet, Paris, 1987, pp. 128-129, no. 986, illustrated, where incorrectly catalogued as belonging to the National Gallery of Canada.
R. Diez, L'arte en plein air dei barbizonnier, 2000, p. 106, no. 233.
Exhibited
New York, C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, An Important Collection of Paintings, 1924, illustrated, as Château de Chillon en automne.
New York, C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, A Loan Collection of French Paintings, 20 October-7 November 1936, no. 2.
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Collects: European Painting 1860-1960, 19 January-21 February 1960, no. 131.
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