Gustave Courbet:
The Fishing Boat
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Artist |
Gustave Courbet
(1819–1877)
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Alternative names |
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet |
Description |
French sculptor, painter and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
10 June 1819
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31 December 1877
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Location of birth/death |
Ornans near
Besançon |
La Tour-de-la-Peilz |
Work location |
Ornans (between 1819 and 1872 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ),
Paris (between 1840 and 1872 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ),
Normandy (1841),
Fontainebleau (1840s),
Belgium-
Netherlands (1846),
Montpellier (1854),
Canton of Bern (1854),
Honfleur (between 1850 and 1860 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ),
Frankfurt (between 1858 and 1859 date QS:P,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ),
Saintes (1862-1863),
Étretat (1865),
Trouville-sur-Mer (1865),
Deauville (1866), Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (1867),
Munich (1869),
Switzerland (between 1873 and 1877 date QS:P,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q34618 |
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Title |
English: The Fishing Boat |
Object type |
painting
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Genre |
marine art
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Date |
1865 date QS:P571,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 64.8 cm (25.5 in); width: 81.3 cm (32 in) dimensions QS:P2048,64.8U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,81.3U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
Current location |
Gallery 812 |
Accession number |
99.11.3 |
Object history |
17 March 1884: purchased by
Private collection institution QS:P195,Q768717 , at the sale of the collection of Jean-Louis Dussol de Cette,
Paris, at Hôtel Drouot,
Paris, lot no. 29 (as Marine) 1899: given to Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City, by Mary Goldenberg
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Exhibition history |
Paris. Rond-Point du Pont de l'Alma. "Exposition des œuvres de M. G. Courbet," April 30–November 1867, no. 56 (as "La barque de pêcheurs [Trouville, 1865]"). Montpellier. location unknown. "Dixième exposition à Montpellier," 1880, no. 81 [see Ref. Fernier 1977]. Bordeaux. Galerie des Beaux-Arts. "Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso," May 15–September 1, 1981, no. 118 (as "Barque sur le rivage"). Leningrad [St. Petersburg]. State Hermitage Museum. "From Delacroix to Matisse," March 15–May 10, 1988, no. 9. Moscow. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. "From Delacroix to Matisse," June 10–July 30, 1988, no. 9. Fort Lauderdale. Museum of Art. "Corot to Cézanne: 19th Century French Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 22, 1992–April 11, 1993, no catalogue. Haus der Kunst München. "Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: 'Les amis de la nature'," February 4–April 21, 1996, no. B 46 (as "Verlassene Fischerbarke am Felsstrand [Barque de Pêcheurs]"). Art Institute of Chicago. "Manet and the Sea," October 20, 2003–January 19, 2004, no. 73. Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Manet and the Sea," February 15–May 30, 2004, no. 73. Amsterdam. Van Gogh Museum. "Manet and the Sea," June 18–September 26, 2004, no. 73. Paris. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. "Gustave Courbet," October 13, 2007–January 28, 2008, no. 136. New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Gustave Courbet," February 27–May 18, 2008, no. 136. Montpellier. Musée Fabre. "Gustave Courbet," June 14–September 28, 2008, no. 136. |
Credit line |
English: Gift of Mary Goldenberg, 1899 |
Inscriptions |
Signature
recto bottom left in
oil medium QS:P186,Q296955 [Gustave Courbet]in red |
Notes |
English: Courbet painted this during a stay at Trouville. |
References |
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Source/Photographer |
https://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/110000445 |
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