Gustave Courbet
Madame de Brayer
185891.4 x 72.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: G. Courbet..58
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929
Literature
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 54
Provenance
the family of the sitter, Brussels, until 1907, sold, spring 1907, through Théodore Duret and Mary Cassatt to Havemeyer
Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, until his death 1907, shipped to them by Durand-Ruel, 11 May 1907
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, 1907–died 1929
Other works by Gustave Courbet
The Artist in His Studio
1854-55
1854-55
Cliff at Étretat, the Porte d'Aval
1869
1869
Beach at Trouville, low tide
1865
1865
The Calm Sea
1869
1869
Reclining nude
1862
1862