Gustave Courbet Gallery
Oil on canvas 50 by 60 cm.

Provenance: Monsier Faure Junior (purchase from the artist); Knoedler, New York; Max Liebermann, Berlin; Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Riezler (nee Kathe Liebermann), New York; tence by descent.

Literature: Robert Fernier, La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Courbet: Catalogue Raisonne, vol. II, (1866-1877, Peintures), Paris, 1977, no. 1015, illustrated p. 222
Stair Saintly Gallery

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Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) Gustave Courbet was born in Ornans, France. He went to Paris in 1839. Towards the end of the 1860s, Courbet painted a series of increasingly erotic works. His refusal of the cross of the Legion of Honour, offered to him by Napoleon III, made him immensely popular.
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