National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Beach in Normandy
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Inscription

lower left: G. Courbet.

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Provenance

(M. F.... sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 May 1891, no. 18, as Marine). Delafond [Delafons], Paris.[1] (Jacques Dubourg, Paris); sold 18 July 1952 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] According to Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Lausanne and Paris, 1978: II:98, no. 725, the name is Delafond. However, Jacques Dubourg, in correspondence with Chester Dale dated 22 September 1952, calls the family Delafons, which is carried over in the Chester Dale records in NGA curatorial files. When queried many years later (see letter dated 5 October 1967 in NGA curatorial files), Jacques Dubourg was unable to find in his files whether the name ended in an "s" or a "d".

Exhibition History

1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 52, repro., as Beach at Etretat.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 33, as Beach at Etretat.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:420, color repro., as Beach at Étretat.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 26, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 82, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 449, no. 654, repro.
1977
Werner, A. "The Two Souls of Gustave Courbet." Art and Artists 12, no. 3 (June 1977): 4-9, repro. p. 7, no. 3, as Beach at Etretat.
1978
Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné. Peintures, 1866-1877, dessins, sculptures. Paris, 1978: 98, no. 725, as Retour de pêche.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 445, no. 642, color repro.
1985
Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milan, 1985: no. 699, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 102, 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: 142-145, color repro.
2007
Gustave Courbet Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 2007:296

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