
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000853The Rock of Hautepierre
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: G. Courbet
Provenance
Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden-Blasewitz, before 1923 [according to Scheffler 1923 and 1935 Graupe sale cat. cited below]. Max Silberberg, Breslau, by 1923 to 1935 [according to 18 July 1967 letter from Fritz Nathan to Charles Cunningham in curatorial file, and Scheffler 1923]; sold Galerie Paul Graupe, Berlin, Mar. 23, 1935, no. 20 [price given in Die Weltkunst 1935]. German private collection [according to Alexander, Graf Strasoldo of Lempertz, Cologne, letter of 21 September 1998 in curatorial file]; sold Lempertz, Cologne, Nov. 11-14, 1964, no. 289, to Galerie Nathan, Zurich [Nathan letter cited above]; sold by Galerie Nathan to Paul Rosenberg Gallery and Co., New York, June 4, 1965 [copy of invoice in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1967.
Exhibition history
Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute [as exchange loan] February–May 1975. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Courbet and the Modern Landscape, February 21–May 14, 2006; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, June 18-September 10, 2006; Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007, cat. 3. Pairs, Musée d'Orsay, Gustave Courbet, October 8, 2007- January 28, 2008. New York City, The Metropolitain Museum of Art, February 25- May 18, 2008, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, June 13- September 28, 2008, cat. 106. Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Courbet - A Dream of Modern Art, October 1, 2010-January 30, 2011.
Publications
Karl Scheffler, "Breslauer Kunstleben," Kunst und Künstler 21 (1923), p. 129–30 (ill.). Charles Léger, Courbet (Paris, 1929), pl. 6. Alice Landsberger, "Eine grosse deutsche Privatsammlung. Die Sammlung Silberberg in Breslau," Die Dame, no. 16 (May, 1930), p. 15. Karl Scheffler, "Die Sammlung Max Silberberg," Kunst und Künstler 30 (1931), p. 6. "Les ventes," Bulletin de l’art ancien et moderne, no. 814 (May 1935), p. 216. Die Weltkunst 9 (1935), p. 3. "Auktions-Vorschau," Die Weltkunst 34 (1964), p. 941 (ill.). "Auctions, Auktionen, Ventes. Deutschland, Spitzenpreise und ungewöhnlich hohes Gesamtniveau," Die Weltkunst 34 (1964), p. 941 (ill.). "Spitzenpreise und ungewöhnlich hohes Gesamtniveau," Die Weltkunst 34 (1964), p. 1108. "Lempertz Auktion," Pantheon 23 (1965), p. 3. "International Saleroom," Connoisseur 158, no. 637 (1965), p.188 (ill.). A. Mardersteig, "Ergebnisse von Winterauktionen," Die Kunst und das schöne Heim 63, no. 6 (1965), p. 6. "La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th ser., 70 (1967), p. 3. Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1966–67 (Chicago, 1967), pp. 2–3 (ill.), 6, 27. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1971), pp. 73–74 (ill.). Robert Fernier, La vie et l’oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1978), p. 52, no. 89, pl. 89. Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: One Hundred Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), pp. 84–85 (ill.). John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 70. Pierre Courthion, L’opera completa di Courbet (Milan, 1985), p. 76, no. 83, pl. 6. Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago and New York, 1988), pp. 78, 81 (ill.), 117. Michael Fried, Courbet's Realism (Chicago, 1990), pp. 242–46, fig. 98. Valérie Bajou, Courbet, (Paris, 2003), p. 227. Mary Morton, Courbet and the Modern Landscape, Exh. cat. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006), p. 56, ill. 60. cat. 3. Laurence Des Cars, Gustave Courbet, Exh. cat. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008), p. 262, cat. 106.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
- Date
- c. 1869
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80.2 × 100.3 cm (31 1/2 × 39 1/2 in.); Framed: 113.1 × 134 × 11.5 cm (44 1/2 × 52 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Emily Crane Chadbourne Fund and Major Acquisitions Centennial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1967.140
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