19th Century European Art

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Lot 12
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Gustave Courbet

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Description

  • Gustave Courbet
  • Fishing Boats on the Normandy Coast
  • signed G. Courbet (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 19 1/4 by 28 3/4 in.
  • 49 by 73cm

Provenance

G. Schoop (Sale, Christie's, London, July 20, 1901, lot 81)
Ichenhauser (acquired at the above sale)
Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 2, 1954, lot 10
Sale, Christie's, New York, May 22, 1997, lot 233, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1868-70.

The coastal scene either depicts the popular beach of Étretat, where Courbet painted some of his most celebrated canvases, or the beach at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, a small town on the Normandy coast where Courbet visited in August of 1867 as a guest of his affluent patron the pharmacist Fourquet.