The Promenade

1866

Gustave Courbet

Artist, French, 1819 - 1877

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 85.5 x 72.5 cm (33 11/16 x 28 9/16 in.)
    framed: 109.9 x 96.8 x 7.6 cm (43 1/4 x 38 1/8 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.113

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

San Marcelli; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 April 1895, no. 18, as Dans les champs);[1] Carmantrand;[2] (Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris), in 1907;[3] sold to Sarah Choate [Mrs. J. Montgomery] Sears, Boston; sold to (C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York); sold 1 April 1926 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[4] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] Sale listed anonymously in catalogue, but identified as San Marcelli in the literature of this object.
[2] Robert Fernier, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, Geneva, 1978: no. 544, gives Carmantrand with no documentation.
[3] In a letter dated 14 June 1928, in NGA curatorial files, Mrs. Sears remembers purchasing the painting directly from Durand-Ruel approximately twenty years previously.
[4] According to Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Portraits of Women Loan Exhibition: Romanticism to Surrealism, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 6

1940

  • Courbet: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1940, no. 12

1941

  • Courbet, The Arts Club of Chicago, 1941, no. 2

1965

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

Bibliography

1929

  • Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 10, repro.

  • Léger, Charles. Courbet. Paris, 1929: 120.

1931

  • "Portraiture: Examples at the French Museum and Elsewhere." The New York Herald Tribune (25 January 1931): section VIII:8.

1940

  • Brian, Doris. "Réalisme: G. Courbet." Art News 34, no. 6 (9 November 1940): 16, repro. 10.

1942

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 27, repro.

1944

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 27, repro.

1951

  • Mac Orlan, Pierre. Courbet. Paris, 1951: pl. 38.

1953

  • French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 36, repro.

1965

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

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 50, repro.

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.

1978

  • Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné. Peintures, 1866-1877, dessins, sculptures. Paris, 1978: 14, no. 544, repro.

1985

  • Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milan, 1985: no. 529, repro.

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 103, 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: 130-133, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: '66 / G.Courbet.

Wikidata ID

Q20188682

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