Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi

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Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi

Gustave CourbetLinkedCulture matchlcp-43f40bdee79b

Date
1877
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
141168

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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. 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.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange
Provenance
?-1915: Juliette Courbet [1831-1915], sister of the artist, by descent to Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre | 1915-1919: Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre | 1919: (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, July 9, 1919 (lot 12), La Dent du Midi, sold to Galerie Barbazanges) | 1919: (Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France) | Mrs. Hennet Collection, Paris, France | Private collection, Paris, France | ?-1964: (Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1964-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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