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Gustave Courbet

Portrait of a Young Girl, 1857

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 60.4 x 52.5 cm (23 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.)

framed: 92.1 x 85.1 x 7 cm (36 1/4 x 33 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.112

Artists / Makers

Gustave Courbet (artist) French, 1819 - 1877

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Inscription

lower left: .57 G. Courbet.

Provenance

Gustave Cahen [b. 1825], Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 24 May 1929, no. 59, as Portrait de jeune femme); acquired, possibly through (Etienne Bignou)[1] by Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] There is a photograph of the painting among the albums from the Bignou Gallery at the documentation center of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (copy in NGA curatorial files). Bignou often purchased for Dale, and was also affiliated with the Galerie Georges Petit with Dale.

Associated Names

Bignou, Etienne
Cahen, Gustave
Dale, Chester
Galerie Georges Petit

Exhibition History

1929: Possibly Exposition Gustave Courbet, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1929

1931: Portraits of Women Loan Exhibition: Romanticism to Surrealism, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 5

1931: Renoir and his Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no.9

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

1979: French Romanticism, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1929: Art News 11 May 1929 (?): 2.

1929: International Studio 93, no. 386 (July 1929): 62.

1929: Kunstauktion 3, no. 22 (2 June 1929): 14, repro.

1929: Kunst und Künstler 27 (1929): repro. p. 371.

1929: Léger, Charles. "De l'inédit sur Courbet à propos d'une exposition." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 56 (1929): 313, repro. 316.

1929: Photogravure Picture Section. The New York TImes (15 September 1929): repro.

1930: Read, H.A. "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 (15 February 1930): repro. 80.

1931: Art Digest 6 (December 1931): repro. 32.

1931: McBride, Henry. "Portraits of Women Shown in Catholic Loan Exhibition." The New York Sun (24 January 1931): 10, repro.

1931: McBride, Henry. "The Chester Dale Collection at New-York." Formes 14 (April 1931): repro. following p. 56.

1931: Pene du Bois, Guy. "Exhibitions: Portraits of Women." The Arts 17, no. 5 (February 1931): 345.

1932: Junior League Magazine 18 (January 1932): repro. 34.

1941: Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 3, pl. V.

1941: "The Chester Dale Pictures on loan to the National Gallery of Art." Magazine of Art 34 no. 9 (November 1941): 476+, repro.

1942: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 28, repro.

1944: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 28, repro.

1953: French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 34, repro.

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 49, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 33.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 26, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 84, repro.

1977: Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné. Peintures, 1819-1865. Paris, 1977: 138, no. 227.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 445, no. 639, color repro.

1985: Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milan, 1985: no. 219, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 103, repro.

1991: Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 245.

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: 115-118, color repro.