Gustave Courbet

Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827-1910)



Gustave Courbet - Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827-1910)



Gustave Courbet
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827-1910)
c. 1852-57
176.5 x 108 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


Provenance


the artist, Paris (d. 1877)
his studio sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 June 1882, nr. 17, as "Portrait de Mme XXX [Croq]," 174 x 108 cm, for Fr 1,210 to Hecht
?sale, Brussels, 1891
Mme de Vermeulen de Villiers (by 1907–9)
her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 6 May 1909, nr. 38, as "Le Femme à la main gantée (Portrait de Mme Croq)", for Fr 50,000, to Durand-Ruel for Havemeyer
Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York (1909–d. 1929; cat., 1931, pp. 94–95, ill.)
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External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.130

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