Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Juliette Courbet [1831-1915], sister of the artist, by descent to Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre
Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre
(Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, July 9, 1919 (lot 12), La Dent du Midi, sold to Galerie Barba...
(Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France)
Mrs. Hennet Collection, Paris, France
Private collection, Paris, France
(Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
Juliette Courbet [1831-1915], sister of the artist, by descent to Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, July 9, 1919 (lot 12), La Dent du Midi, sold to Galerie Barbazanges) (Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France) Mrs. Hennet Collection, Paris, France Private collection, Paris, France (Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). Gustave Courbet. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (October 1, 1977-January 2, 1978). Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (November 21, 1998-February 21, 1999). Courbet and the Modern Landscape. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 21-May 14, 2006); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (June 18-September 10, 2006). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Gustave Courbet. Les anées suisses. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve 3, Switzerland (September 5, 2014-January 4, 2015). Gustave Courbet. Grand Palais, Paris, France; Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom: (1819-1877).
Courbet was still working on this large landscape, intended for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1879, when he died in December 1877. He painted it during his exile in Switzerland, where he had fled after being condemned for subversive activities in the Paris Commune of 1871. The view looks south over Lake Geneva toward the mountains called Les Dents du Midi. While some areas are heavily worked with a palette knife, the lower right remains unfinished.
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 8 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.