Gustave Courbet - Wooded Mountain Side
Gustave Courbet
Wooded Mountain Side
Oil on canvas (relined). 46 x 55 cm.
Signed lower left: G. Courbet.
Two titles have survived for this painting in its long provenance list, "La forêt allemande" and "Sous bois". The first title is probably related to its creation in 1858 (F. Fernier, op. cit.). Gustave Courbet came to Frankfurt in August 1858 for a six-month stay, where he initially worked in a studio of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, probably in the Deutschordenshaus on the Sachsenhausen side of the Main. After a falling out with the Städel professor Jakob Becker, he then moved to a studio in Kettenhofweg. Courbet created a total of twelve paintings in Frankfurt, including his famous "La Dame de Francfort" (today Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne).
Known as a passionate hunter, Courbet soon had access to the wealthy Frankfurt society on the Main, which not only appreciated his works but also frequently invited him to hunt in the Taunus or Spessart. On New Year's Eve 1858, for example, he boasted that he had shot a twelve-pointer, the likes of which had not been seen in Germany for over 25 years. It is therefore quite conceivable that on one of these hunting trips the painter noticed this corner of "German" forest or forest floor that can be seen in this picture.
Provenance
Coll. Luquet 1882. - Auctioned by Paris 28.04.1883 (Escribe et Haro), no. 23. - Auctioned by Paris, coll. M. P. C. Chavane. catalogue 17.12.1906. - Bernheim Jeune coll., Paris. - Biermann coll., Bremen - Coll. of Marquise de Tastes, 1926. - Fouché coll., Duc d´Otrante, sold by Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt 15.12.1926, no. 52. - German private collection.
Literature
G. Riat: Gustave Courbet, Peintre, Paris 1906, p. 174. - R. Fernier: Courbet, vol. I, Geneva 1977, p. 148, no. 237.
Gustave Courbet
Wooded Mountain Side
Oil on canvas (relined). 46 x 55 cm.
Signed lower left: G. Courbet.
Two titles have survived for this painting in its long provenance list, "La forêt allemande" and "Sous bois". The first title is probably related to its creation in 1858 (F. Fernier, op. cit.). Gustave Courbet came to Frankfurt in August 1858 for a six-month stay, where he initially worked in a studio of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, probably in the Deutschordenshaus on the Sachsenhausen side of the Main. After a falling out with the Städel professor Jakob Becker, he then moved to a studio in Kettenhofweg. Courbet created a total of twelve paintings in Frankfurt, including his famous "La Dame de Francfort" (today Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne).
Known as a passionate hunter, Courbet soon had access to the wealthy Frankfurt society on the Main, which not only appreciated his works but also frequently invited him to hunt in the Taunus or Spessart. On New Year's Eve 1858, for example, he boasted that he had shot a twelve-pointer, the likes of which had not been seen in Germany for over 25 years. It is therefore quite conceivable that on one of these hunting trips the painter noticed this corner of "German" forest or forest floor that can be seen in this picture.
Provenance
Coll. Luquet 1882. - Auctioned by Paris 28.04.1883 (Escribe et Haro), no. 23. - Auctioned by Paris, coll. M. P. C. Chavane. catalogue 17.12.1906. - Bernheim Jeune coll., Paris. - Biermann coll., Bremen - Coll. of Marquise de Tastes, 1926. - Fouché coll., Duc d´Otrante, sold by Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt 15.12.1926, no. 52. - German private collection.
Literature
G. Riat: Gustave Courbet, Peintre, Paris 1906, p. 174. - R. Fernier: Courbet, vol. I, Geneva 1977, p. 148, no. 237.
