DrawingsFrench19th century

Artist at his Easel

1847-1848(?)

Artists

Gustave CourbetArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk with traces of charcoal with scraping on cream antique laid paper; graphite outline on palette and lower edge of coat lapels (later addition?)

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

55.4 x 33.5 cm (21 13/16 x 13 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Juliette Courbet, sister of the artist; (Felix?) Gérard; Claude Roger-Marx, Paris; acquired from him through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, September 1938 (Fr 82,500 for cat. nos. 10 and 11); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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