Gustave Courbet

Battenheim, Potsdam
Huink & Scherjon Kunsthandel, 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 twentieth century, comprising 300 oils and works on paper); thence by descent to his grandson
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 16 November 2005, lot 241
Private Collection
Purchased by the present owner from the above

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

The canvas has been re-lined. There are a few scattered spots of retouching visible under ultraviolet light, under a varnish, notably to darker areas and some inpainting to the sky at the upper left. Apart from scattered craquelure, this work is in good condition. Held in a decorative, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame with a cream canvas slip.
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Painted circa 1874-76 in the Gruyère region of Switzerland.