Lot 241
  • 241

Gustave Courbet French, 1819-1877

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Description

  • Gustave Courbet
  • La Vallée rocheuse
  • signed G. Courbet l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 43.2 by 59.2cm., 17 by 23 1/4 in.

Provenance

Battenheim, Potsdam
Huinck & Scherjon Galleries, Amsterdam
H.E. ten Cate Collection, Almelo (as director of the Ten Cate Textile Company in Almelo, between 1920 and 1940 ten Cate assembled one of the most important Dutch collections of the 20th Century, comprising 300 oils and works on paper); thence by descent to his grandson, the present owner

Literature

D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H.E. ten Cate Collection, Rotterdam, 1955, no. 47, catalogued; pl. 53, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1874-76 in the Gruyère region of Switzerand.