Lot 95
  • 95

Gustave Courbet

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Courbet
  • Ruisseau dans la forĂȘt
  • signed G. Courbet (lower left)

  • oil on canvas
  • 26 3/8 by 16 1/2 in.
  • 66.9 by 41.9 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Ohio (by 1987)
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York

Exhibited

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries; Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Courbet: Later Paintings, February-May 1998, no. 5, illustrated
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Nineteenth-Century European Paintings, February 4-March 1, 2003, no. 9, illustrated
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Gustave Courbet, October 28-November 29, 2003, illustrated

 

Literature

Robert Fernier, La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1978, vol. I, p. 197, no. 344, illustrated

Condition

Lined, craquelure visible throughout; under UV: dots and dashes of inpainting throughout, 14 inch vertical line of inpainting extending down from right side of top edge, inpainting to address frame abrasion along left edge, inpainting to address craquelure in some areas.
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