Gustave Courbet
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827-1910)
c. 1852-57176.5 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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Other works by Gustave Courbet
Woman with Pigeons
mid-1860s
mid-1860s
The Source of the Loue
1864
1864
The Deer
c. 1865
c. 1865
River and Rocks
1873-77
1873-77
A Brook in the Forest
ca. 1868?77
ca. 1868?77