Gustave Courbet
Jo, La Belle Irlandaise
1865-6655.9 x 66 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: . . 66 / Gustave.Courbet.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 56
Provenance
with Félix Gérard, père, Paris, until 1896
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 February 1896, nr. 13, to Gérard, fils
with his son, Félix Gérard, Paris, 1896
with Hector-Gustave Brame, Paris, until 1898, deposited at Durand-Ruel, Paris, 15 June 1898, sold on 9 September to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1898, sold on 12 or 27 October to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, New York, 1898, sold on 31 December to Havemeyer
Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, 1898–his death 1907
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, 1907–died 1929
Other works by Gustave Courbet
Woman with a Parrot
1866
1866
The Cellist (Self-Portrait)
1847
1847
La Grotte de la Loue
c. 1865
c. 1865
Burial at Ornans
1849-50
1849-50
Man with the Leather Belt (Portrait of the Artist)
1845-46?
1845-46?