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

Lot 55
24.05.2023 16:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 300 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 945239
Lot 55 | GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
GUSTAVE COURBET (ORNANS 1819-1877 LA TOUR-DE-PEILZ)

Castle of Chillon (Château de Chillon)

signed 'G. Courbet' (lower right)

oil on canvas

27 1/4 x 37 5/8 in. (69.2 x 95.7 cm.)





Provenance

M. de Sesteguy; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 April 1892, lot 8, where acquired by the following,

with Galerie Durand-Ruel and Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris.

Lambert, Paris, by 5 June 1920.

with Kraushaar Galleries, New York, where acquired circa 1920 by,

Charles Jackson Booth (1863-1947) and Jessie Louise Booth (1876-1939), Ottawa, and by descent to,

Charles Rowley Booth (1915-1960) and Marjorie Annette McKinnon (1920-2003), Ottawa, until at least 1960.

Private collection, Ottawa; Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1998, lot 135, where acquired 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 erroneously 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 erroneously 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, 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.



Special Notice


This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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