The Brook of Les Puits-Noir

1. Jean-Paul Mazaroz-Ribalier, Paris, by 1890; sold Hôtel Drouot, May 13–14, 1890, no. 13 for 1,250 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Durand-Ruel Paris, by June 5, 1890 [according to a receipt in the Martin A. Ryerson files, Art Institute Archives; it is possible Durand-Ruel acted as an agent for Ryerson]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson, New York, October 27, 1890, for $2,000 [according to the receipt of sale, Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1913; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 175.
• New York, American Federation of the Arts, 19th Century French Paintings, 1948–1949; traveled to Saginaw Art Museum, December 19, 1948–January 9, 1949, cat. 6; Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, June 1–June 22, 1948; Springfield, Springfield Art Museum, no cat.; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, March 1949; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, April 1949.
• Nagoaka, Niigata Prefectural Museum, Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago, April 20–May 29, 1944, no. 1; traveled to Nahoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.
• New York, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Courbet (1819–1877): Later Paintings, January 6–February 28, 1998 cat. 25; Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau Country Art Museum, March 7–May 29, 1998.

• “Mouvement des Arts: Collection Mazaroz-Ribalier,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 22, suppl. (1890), p. 169.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 210, no. 2125.
• Eliot Clark, “Courbet,” Art in America 8 (1920), p. 16.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 161, no. 2104.
• Charles Léger, Courbet (Paris: G. Crès et cie, 1929), p. 57–58.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 184, no. 587.13.
• E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs…, vol. 2 (Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1949; repr. 1966), p. 681.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 107.
• Faber Birren, History of Color in Painting: With New Principles of Color Expression (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1965), p. 265 (ill.).
• Jack Lindsay, Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), pp. 111–12.
• Robert Fernier, La vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Courbet: catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1978), pp. 176–77, no. 888 (ill.).
• John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), p. 70.

Mère Grégoire

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The Rock of Hautepierre

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An Alpine Scene

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The Valley of Les Puits-Noir

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Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau)

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Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant)

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Model Reading in the Studio

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The Apostle Jean Journet

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