ID 878483
Lot 8 | GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
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.
Special Notice
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