Gustave Courbet

Max Siegert, Frankfurt-am-Main
Dr. Heinrich Stinnes, Cologne (with his collection stamp lower left (Lugt 1376d); purchased from the above on 27th August 1930)
William H. Schab Gallery, New York (acquired before 1996)
Sale: Péron-Champin, Barbizon, 22nd November 1998, lot 49
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz,  Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 91, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 105, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 125, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Courbet – Ein Traum von der Moderne, 2010-11, no. 31, illustrated in the catalogue 

This work is in good overall condition. Executed on wove paper. The sheet is attached to the mount at points at the extreme edges and is not laid down. The edges of the sheet are faintly more yellowed than the rest of the composition, likely owing to a former mat. There is a small repair in the 't' of the signature, two repairs to the right of this extending to the lower edge, and a tiny circa 3cm tear near the extreme right of the lower edge.There is a minor circa 4cm crease in the sheet near the top of the extreme right edge. Presented in a decorative gilt frame, the edges of the sheet visible and not covered by the mat, under glass.
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