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"tombstone": "Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi, 1877. Gustave Courbet (French, 1819\u20131877). 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",
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"title": "Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi",
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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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"title": "Year in Review (1964)",
"description": "Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).",
"opening_date": "1964-12-08T05:00:00"
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"title": "Gustave Courbet",
"description": "Gustave Courbet. Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris, France (October 1, 1977-January 2, 1978).",
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"title": "Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur",
"description": "Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur. Mus\u00e9e Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (November 21, 1998-February 21, 1999).",
"opening_date": "1998-11-21T00:00:00"
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"id": 217061,
"title": "Courbet and the Modern Landscape",
"description": "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).",
"opening_date": "2006-02-21T00:00:00"
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"id": 182153,
"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: 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).",
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"title": "Gustave Courbet. Les an\u00e9es suisses",
"description": "Gustave Courbet. Les an\u00e9es suisses. Mus\u00e9e d'art et d'histoire, Gen\u00e9ve 3, Switzerland (September 5, 2014-January 4, 2015).",
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"description": "Gustave Courbet. Grand Palais, Paris, France; Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom: (1819-1877).",
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"description": "Juliette Courbet [1831-1915], sister of the artist, by descent to Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre",
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"date": "1915-1919",
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"description": "(Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, July 9, 1919 (lot 12), La Dent du Midi, sold to Galerie Barbazanges)",
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"date": null,
"sortorder": 5
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"date": null,
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"did_you_know": "This late, unfinished painting reveals some of Courbet's techniques. At the top of the mountains you can see how different brushstrokes and thickly applied paint were used to differentiate the texture of the clouds from the snow.",
"description": "Courbet was still working on this large landscape, intended for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1879, when he died in December 1877. He painted it during his exile in Switzerland, where he had fled after being condemned for subversive activities in the Paris Commune of 1871. The view looks south over Lake Geneva toward the mountains called Les Dents du Midi. While some areas are heavily worked with a palette knife, the lower right remains unfinished.",
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"citation": "Riat, Georges, and Paul Vitry. Gustave Courbet, peintre. Paris, France: H. Floury, 1906.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 356",
"url": null
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"citation": "Le\u0301ger, Charles. Courbet et son temps; lettres et documents ine\u0301dits. Paris, France: E\u0301ditions universelles, 1948.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 167",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\"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",
"url": null
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"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "\u201cGrand Panorama Des Alpes, Ou La Dent Du Midi.\u201d Gazette Des Beaux Arts 65 (February 1965): sup.57.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 57",
"url": null
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"citation": "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"
},
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"citation": "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"
},
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"citation": "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"
},
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"citation": "Hommage a\u0300 Courbet: catalogue de l'exposition organise\u0301e a\u0300 l'occasion du centenaire de la mort du mai\u0302tre-peintre : Muse\u0301e-maison natale Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 2 juillet-16 octobre 1977. Paris, France: Les Amis de Gustave Courbet, 1977.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 981",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "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"
},
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"citation": "Hofman, Werner and Klaus Herding. Courbet und Deutschland: [Hamburger Kunsthalle, 19. Oktober-17. Dezember 1978, Sta\u0308dt. Galerie im Sta\u0308delschen Kunstinst. Frankfurt am Main, 17. Januar-18. Ma\u0308rz 1979. Ko\u0308ln, Germany: Du Mont, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 65, fig. a",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'\u0153uvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. Lausanne: Bibliothe\u0300que des Arts, 1978.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 200-201, no. 955",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Llera Rodriguez, Ramon. \u201cCourbet, Entre El Romanticismo y El Realismo.\u201d Goya, no. 156 (May 1980): 351\u201357.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 357",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1985.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 971",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Herding, Klaus. \"Zu Courbets Spatwerk.\" Pantheon 44 (1986): 75-86.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 80",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Herding, Klaus. \"Courbet Reconsidered. Brooklyn and Minneapolis.\" The Burlington Magazine 131, no. 1032 (March 1989): 244-46.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 245, fig. 72",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Herding, Klaus. Courbet: To Venture Independence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 151, fig. 63",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Faunce, Sarah. Gustave Courbet. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 45-46",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Georgel, Pierre. Courbet: le poe\u0300me de la nature. Paris, France: Gallimard, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 126-127",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Metken Gu\u0308nter. \u201c\u2018Aus Hohen Bergen ...\" : Alpine Malerei Zwischen Niklaus Manuel Deutsch Und Jean Le Gac.\u201d Weltkunst 65 (June 1995): 1460-1463.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 1461",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rubin, James Henry. Courbet. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1997.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 300; Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 200",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate and Jo\u0308rg Zutter. Courbet: artiste et promoteur de son \u0153uvre. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 515, no. 47",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Harrison, Colin. 1999. \u201cCourbet for Collectors.\u201d Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 149, no. 447 (May 1999): 52\u201353.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 53",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Coen, Vittoria. Everest: l'orizzonte curvo della fantasia. Rovereto (TN): Nicolodi, 2002.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 96-99; Reproduced: p. 96",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bajou-Charpentreau, Vale\u0301rie, and Gustave Courbet. Courbet. Paris, France: A. Biro, 2003.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p, 395, 397",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Morton, Mary G., Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, and Dominique de Font-Re\u0301aulx. Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 239, pl. 49",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Le Men, Se\u0301gole\u0300ne. Courbet. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 2008.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 252, pl. 200",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Radrizzani, Dominique, Huguette Radrizzani, Rene\u0301 Radrizzani, and Franc\u0327oise Lambert. Lemancolia: traite\u0301 artistique du Le\u0301man. Lausanne, Switzerland: Noir sur Blanc E\u0301ditions, 2013.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 142, fig. 105",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Madeline, Laurence. Gustave Courbet: Les Anne\u0301es Suisses. [Paris]: Art Lys, 2014.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 246-247, no. 70",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "\"Gustave Courbet, Les Annees Suisses.\" L'\u0152il 671 (September 2014).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 84; Reproduced: fig. 3",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Chambaz, Bernard. Le dernier tableau: de Simone Martini a\u0300 Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: \u00c9ditions du Seuil, 2017.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 21",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Richart, Brigitte, and Alexandra Jalaber. Gustave Courbet: Paysages de Mer. Rouen: E\u0301ditions des Falaises, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 54-55",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "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",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Lecomte, Georges.\"Le centenaire de Gustave Corbet.\" La Renaissance 2 (1919): 330.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 330",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Sgarbi, Vittorio. Il Cielo Pi\u00f9 Vicino: La Montagna Nell\u2019Arte. Milano: La Nave di Teseo, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 196-197",
"url": ""
}
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"biography": "Born into a wealthy farmer's family, Courbet began his training in 1831 at the Petit S\u00e9minaire in Ornans where, beginning in 1833, he studied under \"le p\u00e8re 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 Coll\u00e8ge Royal in Besan\u00e7on. 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 \u00c9cole 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 Acad\u00e9mie 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 Gem\u00e4ldegalerie, destroyed during World War II), Peasants of Flagey (1850-55, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Besan\u00e7on), and The Burial at Ornans (1849-50, Mus\u00e9e 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 R\u00e9alisme near the Universal Exposition, where he showed his Painter's Studio (1854-55, Mus\u00e9e 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 Vend\u00f4me 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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