Model Reading in the Studio by Gustave Courbet
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Model Reading in the Studio

Gustave Courbet · c. 1849

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Jean Jadot, Brussels [according to a letter from Frederick Schab to Harold Joachim dated May 20, 1968 in curatorial file]. Sold by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 48 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 102-103, cat. 48 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt, Kunstinstitut, "Courbet und Deutschland," January 17-March 18, 1979, cat. 317; also traveled to the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, October 18, 1978-January 6, 1979.
  • France, Musée d’Ornans, "L’Oeuvre Dessinée et Sculptée de Gustave Courbet," June-October 1982.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 138-139, cat. 62 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, January-May 1986.
  • New York, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Courbet Reconsidered," November 4, 1988-January 16, 1989, p. 208; also traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 18-April 30, 1989.
  • New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Gustave Courbet,” February 27–May 18, 2008, p 354, cat. 170, cat. by Dominique De Font-Réaulx et al
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013

Literature

Published references

  • Harold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 5, no. 3 (ill.).
  • Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: catalogue raisonné II (Lausanne, 1978), pp. 294 and 295, no. 32 (ill.).
  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1979), p. 39, no. 2B8.
  • Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 26, 27, and 117 (ill.).

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