An Alpine Scene

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1874

Gustave Courbet
French, 1819-1877

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Gustave Courbet
Title: An Alpine Scene
Origin: France
Date: 1874
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: 74 G. Courbet
Dimensions: 23 5/8 × 28 3/4 in. (60 × 73 cm)
Credit Line: A. A. Munger Collection
Reference Number: 1901.456

Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. VII. The Munger Collection,” Brush and Pencil 3, 2 (1898), p. 70.
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Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 172, no. 184.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 178, no. 184.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 190, no. 184.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 177, no. 184.
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Théodore Duret, Courbet (Paris: Bernheim Jeune and Cie, 1918), p. 149.
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Charles Joseph Biederman, Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge (Red Wing, Minnesota: C. Beiderman, 1948), p. 299, fig. 100.
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City Art Museum of St. Louis, Loan Exhibition of French Paintings, January 1931, cat. 7.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 236.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 174.
Baltimore Museum of Art, An Exhibition of Paintings by Courbet, May 3–29, 1938, cat. 18.
Arts Club of Chicago, Courbet, January 3–27, 1941, cat. 1.
Venice, XXVIIe Biennale, Courbet, June 19–October 17, 1954, cat. 48.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Gustave Courbet, November 1–December 31, 1954, cat. 53.
Paris, Petit Palais, Gustave Courbet, 1955, cat. 95.
New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Gustave Courbet, January 16–February 11, 1956, cat. 18.
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Paintings by Gustave Courbet, November 28, 1956–January 2, 1957, no cat.
Wichita Art Museum, Civilization Revisited, December 4, 1971–January 30, 1972, no cat. no.
New York, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Courbet: Late Paintings, January 6–February 28, 1998, cat. 29; Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Art Museum, March 7–May 29, 1998.
Geneva, Musée Rath, Musées d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève, Gustave Courbet: Les années suisses, September 5, 2014–January 4, 2015, cat. 64.

Albert Allison Munger (died 1898), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901.

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