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accession number: 1964.420
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Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi, 1877. Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877). Oil on fabric; framed: 172 x 230 x 8.5 cm (67 11/16 x 90 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 151.2 x 210.2 cm (59 1/2 x 82 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange 1964.420
title: Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi
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creation date: 1877
creation date earliest: 1877
creation date latest: 1877
current location: 220 19th Century European
creditline: John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: oil on fabric
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877) - artist
Born into a wealthy farmer's family, Courbet began his training in 1831 at the Petit Séminaire in Ornans where, beginning in 1833, he studied under "le père Baud," who had been a pupil of Gros (q.v.). He was befriended by poet Max Buchon, who would later write the first article on Courbet, claiming that he was the artist for the people. In 1837, hoping that Gustave would become a lawyer, his father sent him to the Collège Royal in Besançon. Despite his father's ambitions, Courbet began to study art at the academy there with Charles-Antoine Flageoulot (1774-1840), a former student of David (q.v.). By 1839 Courbet had moved to Paris to pursue a career in art. He refrained from entering the École des Beaux-Arts, studying instead briefly with Charles de Steuben (1788-1856) and preferring to learn how to paint by copying the works of the Old Masters in the museums. Courbet also wanted to work after life models and enrolled at the Académie Suisse. He began to submit paintings to the Salon, the majority of which were rejected. In 1846-47 Courbet traveled to the Netherlands where he studied the works of Rembrandt and Hals. The following year ten of his paintings were shown at the Salon, and together with his friends Baudelaire, Champfleury, and Buchon he became labeled a "realist." Courbet's paintings shown at the 1851 Salon-Stonebreakers (1849, formerly Dresden Gemäldegalerie, destroyed during World War II), Peasants of Flagey (1850-55, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon), and The Burial at Ornans (1849-50, Musée d'Orsay, Paris)-elicited criticism. Because Courbet represented the peasants as he saw them, without ennobling or idealizing them, his works met with disapproval. Moreover, these representations of peasants appeared at a time when the upper classes felt threatened by social unrest and by the instability of the republic. In 1855 Courbet financed an independent Pavillon du Réalisme near the Universal Exposition, where he showed his Painter's Studio (1854-55, Musée d'Orsay, Paris). He began to travel extensively, including visits to Gent, Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Cologne, Mainz, and Strasbourg. He returned to Germany in 1858, and while in Frankfurt, he began to paint the stag hunts he witnessed. The following year he visited the Normandy coast, painting seascapes, some of which became almost abstractions. Courbet turned to still lifes in 1862-63 when visiting the Saintonge area, yet he still continued to create landscapes and portraits. By 1870 he was offered the Legion of Honor but refused it because of his opposition to the imperial government. During the Paris Commune from March to May 1871, Courbet became an active member of the government. As chairman of the Commission for the Protection of the Artistic Monuments of Paris, he suggested the Vendôme Column be dismantled because it was an imperial symbol. The Commune decided instead to topple the column. When the Commune was defeated, Courbet was held responsible for this act of vandalism and was jailed for six months. In 1873 the government decided to rebuild the column at Courbet's expense. Unable to pay and fearful of being arrested, Courbet moved to Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life in exile.
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measurements: Framed: 172 x 230 x 8.5 cm (67 11/16 x 90 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 151.2 x 210.2 cm (59 1/2 x 82 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1964)
opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00
Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
title: Gustave Courbet
opening date: 1977-10-01T04:00:00
Gustave Courbet. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (October 1, 1977-January 2, 1978).
title: Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur
opening date: 1998-11-21T00:00:00
Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (November 21, 1998-February 21, 1999).
title: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
opening date: 2006-02-21T00:00:00
Courbet and the Modern Landscape. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 21-May 14, 2006); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (June 18-September 10, 2006).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).
title: Gustave Courbet. Les anées suisses
opening date: 2014-09-05T00:00:00
Gustave Courbet. Les anées suisses. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve 3, Switzerland (September 5, 2014-January 4, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Gustave Courbet. Grand Palais, Paris, France; Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom: (1819-1877).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Juliette Courbet [1831-1915], sister of the artist, by descent to Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre
date: ?-1915
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Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre
date: 1915-1919
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(Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, July 9, 1919 (lot 12), La Dent du Midi, sold to Galerie Barbazanges)
date: 1919
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(Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France)
date: 1919
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Mrs. Hennet Collection, Paris, France
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Private collection, Paris, France
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(Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1964
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1964-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Riat, Georges, and Paul Vitry. Gustave Courbet, peintre. Paris, France: H. Floury, 1906.
page number: Reproduced: p. 356
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Léger, Charles. Courbet et son temps; lettres et documents inédits. Paris, France: Éditions universelles, 1948.
page number: Reproduced: p. 167
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"Year in Review for 1964." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LI, no. 12 (December, 1964): 236-267.
page number: Reproduced: p. 248, no.73; Mentioned: p. 263
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Francis, Henry S. "Reports of the Departments: Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LII no. 6 (June, 1965): 143-145.
page number: Mentioned: p. 144
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“Grand Panorama Des Alpes, Ou La Dent Du Midi.” Gazette Des Beaux Arts 65 (February 1965): sup.57.
page number: Reproduced: P. 57
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 170
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n194
Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Gustave Corbet, Grand Panorama of the Alps with the Dent du Midi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIII no. 3 (March, 1966):74-80.
page number: Reproduced: p. 74; Mentioned: p. 74-80
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152094
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 170
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n194
Hommage à Courbet: catalogue de l'exposition organisée à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort du maître-peintre : Musée-maison natale Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 2 juillet-16 octobre 1977. Paris, France: Les Amis de Gustave Courbet, 1977.
page number: Reproduced: no. 981
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 211
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n231
Hofman, Werner and Klaus Herding. Courbet und Deutschland: [Hamburger Kunsthalle, 19. Oktober-17. Dezember 1978, Städt. Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinst. Frankfurt am Main, 17. Januar-18. März 1979. Köln, Germany: Du Mont, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 65, fig. a
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Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 200-201, no. 955
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Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979.
page number: Reproduced: p. 72
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Llera Rodriguez, Ramon. “Courbet, Entre El Romanticismo y El Realismo.” Goya, no. 156 (May 1980): 351–57.
page number: Reproduced: P. 357
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Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1985.
page number: Reproduced: p. 971
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Herding, Klaus. "Zu Courbets Spatwerk." Pantheon 44 (1986): 75-86.
page number: Reproduced: P. 80
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Herding, Klaus. "Courbet Reconsidered. Brooklyn and Minneapolis." The Burlington Magazine 131, no. 1032 (March 1989): 244-46.
page number: Reproduced: P. 245, fig. 72
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Herding, Klaus. Courbet: To Venture Independence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 151, fig. 63
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Faunce, Sarah. Gustave Courbet. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 45-46
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: P. 45
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Georgel, Pierre. Courbet: le poème de la nature. Paris, France: Gallimard, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 126-127
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Metken Günter. “‘Aus Hohen Bergen ..." : Alpine Malerei Zwischen Niklaus Manuel Deutsch Und Jean Le Gac.” Weltkunst 65 (June 1995): 1460-1463.
page number: Reproduced: P. 1461
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Rubin, James Henry. Courbet. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1997.
page number: Mentioned: p. 300; Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 200
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Faunce, Sarah. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): Jura Landscape, or, Jura Landscape with Shepherdess and Donkey. New York, NY: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 9
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Fernier, Jean-Jacques and Clement Greenberg. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): Later Paintings. New York, NY, NY: Salander O'Reilly Galleries, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p.77
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Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate and Jörg Zutter. Courbet: artiste et promoteur de son œuvre. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 515, no. 47
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D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH; The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 164-165, no. 62, Vol. I
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Harrison, Colin. 1999. “Courbet for Collectors.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 149, no. 447 (May 1999): 52–53.
page number: Reproduced: P. 53
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Coen, Vittoria. Everest: l'orizzonte curvo della fantasia. Rovereto (TN): Nicolodi, 2002.
page number: Mentioned: p. 96-99; Reproduced: p. 96
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Eisenman, Stephen, and Thomas E. Crow. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. New York, NY.: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
page number: Reproduced: p. 239, fig. 10.22
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Bajou-Charpentreau, Valérie, and Gustave Courbet. Courbet. Paris, France: A. Biro, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p, 395, 397
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Morton, Mary G., Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, and Dominique de Font-Réaulx. Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.
page number: Reproduced: p. 239, pl. 49
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Eisenman, Stephen, and Thomas E. Crow. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2007.
page number: Reproduced: p. 263, fig. 11.25
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Le Men, Ségolène. Courbet. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 252, pl. 200
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Radrizzani, Dominique, Huguette Radrizzani, René Radrizzani, and Françoise Lambert. Lemancolia: traité artistique du Léman. Lausanne, Switzerland: Noir sur Blanc Éditions, 2013.
page number: Reproduced: p. 142, fig. 105
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Madeline, Laurence. Gustave Courbet: Les Années Suisses. [Paris]: Art Lys, 2014.
page number: Reproduced: P. 246-247, no. 70
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 291
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"Gustave Courbet, Les Annees Suisses." L'Œil 671 (September 2014).
page number: Mentioned: p. 84; Reproduced: fig. 3
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Rubin, James Henry, and Patrick Matthiesen. Gustave Courbet: Mother and Child on a Hammock & 'Courbet in Love and Productive Disappointment'. London: Matthiesen Ltd, 2016.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 50-51, fig. 55
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Chambaz, Bernard. Le dernier tableau: de Simone Martini à Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21
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Chambaz, Bernard, and David Watson. The Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters from Giotto to Twombly. Woodbridge, Suffolk: ACC Art Books Ltd, 2018.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21
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Richart, Brigitte, and Alexandra Jalaber. Gustave Courbet: Paysages de Mer. Rouen: Éditions des Falaises, 2019.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 54-55
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Trumpener, Katie, and T. J. Barringer. On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama between Canvas and Screen. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2020.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 24, fig. 0.18
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Lecomte, Georges."Le centenaire de Gustave Corbet." La Renaissance 2 (1919): 330.
page number: Reproduced: p. 330
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