GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)

Lot 8
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ID 878483
Lot 8 | GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)
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£ 400 000 – 600 000
GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)

Le Château de Chillon, Lake Geneva

signed and dated '76/ G.Courbet.' (lower left)

oil on canvas

32 x 38 3/8 in. (81.3 x 100 cm.)





Provenance

Collection Kuntz.

Galerie Caspari, Munich, by 1914.

Possibly Victor Stoeffler, Gérardmer and Montceau-les-Mines.

with Jacques Dubourg, Paris, by 1958.

with Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, purchased from the above, by 1968.

Private Collection, New York, by 1978.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1981, lot 59.

Rindoko Museum, Tochigi, Japan.

Private Collection, Japan, 2020.



Literature

J. Meier-Graefe, Courbet, Munich, 1924, p 117, no. 118, with the incorrect date of 1875.

R. Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Paris and Lausanne, 1978, vol. II, pp. 232-233, no. 1043, illustrated.



Exhibited

Munich, Gallery Caspari, Summer 1914, unnumbered.



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