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Gustave Courbet

Calm Sea, 1866

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 92

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54.1 x 63.9 cm (21 5/16 x 25 3/16 in.)

framed: 69.9 x 80.3 x 5.1 cm (27 1/2 x 31 5/8 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1985.64.10

Artists / Makers

Gustave Courbet (artist) French, 1819 - 1877

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Inscription

lower left: '66 / Gustave Courbet

Provenance

Private collection, France. (Galerie Nathan, Zurich), by 1962;[1] sold May 1965 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] Lent by Fritz and Peter Nathan to an exhibition in Bern in 1962. A letter dated 26 April 1999 from the Galerie Nathan, in NGA curatorial files, indicates that they have no additional documentation on the picture.

Associated Names

Galerie Nathan
Mellon, Paul
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1962: Gustave Courbet, Kunstmuseum, Berne, 1962, no. 46, repro.

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, 1966, no. 6, repro.

1973: French Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1973-1978, unnumbered checklist

1979: 19th and 20th Century French Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1979 (long term exhibition), checklist no. 20

1989: Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1990: Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 14, repro.

2007: Impressionists by the Sea, Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 2007-2008, no. 20, repro.

Bibliography

1966: Tippetts, Marie-Antoinette. Les Marines des peintres vues par les littérateurs de Diderot aux Goncourt. Paris, 1966: 172 note 5.

1978: Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné. Peintures, 1866-1877, dessins, sculptures. Paris, 1978: 36, no. 591, repro.

1985: Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milan, 1985: no. 538, repro.

1991: Coman, Florence E. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1991: no. 4, repro.

2000: Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 133-138, color repro.