Gustave Courbet
Monsieur Suisse
186159.1 x 49.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed left edge: G. Courbet.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Provenance
Brivet (in 1867)
the artist's cousin, Félix Courbet, Paris (until 1882)
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 December 1882, nr. 18, as "Portrait de M. Suisse," for Fr 1,080 to Gadala
Theodore-Charles Gadala (1882–94)
deposited at Durand-Ruel, Paris, 28 December 1894; deposit nr. 8595, as "Portrait de Mr. Suisse")
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, New York (possibly from about 1895–96; until his d. 1907)
Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York (1907–d. 1929; cat., 1931, pp. 98–99, ill.)
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Other works by Gustave Courbet
Marine: The Waterspout
1870
1870
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare
1857
1857
La trombe
1867
1867
The Source
1862
1862
Woman with Pigeons
mid-1860s
mid-1860s