GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ) - photo 1
GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ) - photo 2
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GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ)

Lot 147
21.05.2025 13:00UTC -04:00
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Starting price
$ 80 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1436639
Lot 147 | GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ)
Les sources de la Loire
signed 'G. Courbet.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1865.




Provenance

(probably) Germain Payen, Malmerspach, Alsace.
Ferdinand Tempelaere (1874-1955), Paris.
with Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, by 1920.
Josef Stransky (1874-1936), New York, by 1931.
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1938 (possibly just on consignment)
Estate sale of Josef Stransky; Sotheby's Park Bernet, New York, 13 March 1957, lot 77.
Louis A. Green (d. 1968), New York.
Evelyn Green Davis (1903-1985), New York, by descent.
Her estate sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1986, lot 14.
with Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 1993.



Literature

The Arts, vol. I, no. 2, January 1921, pp. 40-41, illustrated.
'Courbet Show at Fearon's', Art News, vol. XXII, no. 28, 19 April 1924, p. 2, as The Source of the River Loire.
R. Flint, 'The Private Collection of Josef Stransky', Art News, vol. XXIX, no. 33, 16 May 1931, pp. 87-88, 91, illustrated.
R. Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Paris and Lausanne, 1977-78, vol II, supplément, pp. 254-255, no. 7, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Kraushaar Art Galleries, 29 December 1920-16 January 1921, no. 1, as Landscape, Ornans.
New York, Kraushaar Art Galleries, 3-31 December 1921, no. 3, as Landscape, Ornans.
New York, Fearon Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Works by Gustave Courbet, 12-26 April 1924, no. 4, as The Source of the River Loire.
Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, on loan, 1933.
New York, Gallery Mary Harriman, Courbet and Delacroix, 7-25 November 1933, no. 6.
(probably) Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, on loan, 1940s.
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