Gustave Courbet French, 1819-1877

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Gustave Courbet
jeannot, marchand de morte aux rats
pencil and charcoal
71x47cm.; 28x18½in.

Provenance

Dr Colin (Courbet's doctor in 1877)
Collection Charles Leger
Sale: Sotheby's Monaco, 5 March 1987, Lot 966

Exhibited

Robert Fernier, La vie l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, Lausanne, Bibliotheque des Arts 1978, tome II, p.306, no.60

Catalogue Note

This drawing is part of a series of four illustrations for La Mort de Jeannot, published in Brussels in 1868 and in Paris in 1884. These four drawings also appeared in Miseres des Gueux by Jean Bruno in 1872.