19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property of a Japanese Private Collector
GUSTAVE COURBET | CERF À LA MARE (FONTAINEBLEAU)
Auction Closed
May 22, 03:43 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GUSTAVE COURBET
French
1819 - 1877
CERF À LA MARE (FONTAINEBLEAU)
signed G. Courbet (lower left)
oil on panel
12⅛ by 8⅞ in.
30.8 by 22.5 cm
Robert Fernier authenticated the present work in a letter dated November 26, 1974.
Private Collection, Japan
Acquired from the above
Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, Lausanne and Paris, 1978, vol. I, p. 168, no. 278, illustrated p. 169
Painted on an intimate scale, Gustave Courbet's expressive brushwork and dramatic palette brilliantly capture the moody atmosphere of a vast moonlit sky and wet mossy ground at Rocher Saint-Germain, Fontainebleau.