Gustave Courbet

Saulaie, bords de la Charente

signed and dated 62 / Gustave Courbet. (lower left)

oil on canvas

26 ⅝ by 32 ⅜ in.

67.6 by 82.2 cm.

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Gustave Courbet
Saulaie, bords de la Charente

signed and dated 62 / Gustave Courbet. (lower left)
oil on canvas

26 ⅝ by 32 ⅜ in.

67.6 by 82.2 cm.

Provenance

Cadart & Luquet, Paris (by 1865)

Galerie Witcomb, Buenos Aires

Collection Boutet, Paris

A. Tooth & Sons, London

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, New York

Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris, 1973

Private collection (by 1977)

Sotheby's, Collection Monsieur et Madame Robert Schmit, Part II, March 24 2022, Lot 122

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibition

Saintes, Mairie, 160 tableaux signés Corot, Courbet, Auguin, Pradelles, 1863, no. 81 (titled Saulée, bords de la Charente)

Limoges, Société des Amis des Arts du Limousin, Deuxième Exposition, 1864, no. 102 (titled Les Saules)

Bordeaux, Galeries de la Société des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, Quatorzième Exposition, 1865, no. 175 (titled Les saules)

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Courbet, 1917-18, no. 17 (titled Les saules à Fond-Couverte, près de Saintes)

Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1874, Naissance de l'Impressionnisme, 1974, no. 50 (titled Rivière en Charente)

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Choix d'un amateur, XIXe-XXe siècles, 1977, no. 18 (titled Paysage de Saintonge)

Ornans, Musée-maison natale Gustave Courbet, Hommage à Courbet, 1977, no. 5

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français, XIXe-XXe siècles, 1988, no. 21

Literature

Robert Fernier, La vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet : Catalogue raisonné, Paris and Lausanne, 1977, tome I, pp. 188-189, no. 323 illustrated

Pierre Courthion, Tout l'œuvre peint de Courbet, Paris, 1987, illustrated p. 90, no. 310

Bruno Foucart, Courbet, Paris, 1995, illustrated p. 108


We are grateful to the Comité Gustave Courbet for having confirmed the authenticity of the work by a letter dated October 22, 2021, after first-hand inspection.

The painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist.