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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    An Alpine Scene
    Gustave Courbet. An Alpine Scene, 1874. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000950

    An Alpine Scene

    by Gustave Courbet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: 74 G. Courbet

    Provenance

    Albert Allison Munger (died 1898), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901.

    Exhibition history

    City Art Museum of St. Louis, Loan Exhibition of French Paintings, January 1931, cat. 7. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 236. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 174. Baltimore Museum of Art, An Exhibition of Paintings by Courbet, May 3–29, 1938, cat. 18. Arts Club of Chicago, Courbet, January 3–27, 1941, cat. 1. Venice, XXVIIe Biennale, Courbet, June 19–October 17, 1954, cat. 48. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Gustave Courbet, November 1–December 31, 1954, cat. 53. Paris, Petit Palais, Gustave Courbet, 1955, cat. 95. New York, Paul Rosenberg and Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Gustave Courbet, January 16–February 11, 1956, cat. 18. Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Paintings by Gustave Courbet, November 28, 1956–January 2, 1957, no cat. Wichita Art Museum, Civilization Revisited, December 4, 1971–January 30, 1972, no cat. no. New York, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Courbet: Late Paintings, January 6–February 28, 1998, cat. 29; Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Art Museum, March 7–May 29, 1998. Lausanne, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Courbet: Artist and Entrepreneur, November 21, 1998 - February 21, 1999; Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, March 25 - May 30, 1999. Geneva, Musée Rath, Musées d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève, Gustave Courbet: Les années suisses, September 5, 2014–January 4, 2015, cat. 64.

    Publications

    Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. VII. The Munger Collection,” Brush and Pencil 3, 2 (1898), p. 70. “Chicago, ILL: The Art Institute of Chicago,” American Art Annual (1898), p. 143. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 172, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 178, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 190, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 177, no. 184. Harriet Monroe, “New Demands Made Necessary by Growth of the Art Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (July 14, 1912), p. A7. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 120, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 124, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 124, no. 184. Théodore Duret, Courbet (Paris: Bernheim Jeune and Cie, 1918), p. 149. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 29, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 29, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 29, no. 184. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 53 (ill.), 132, no. 184. Charles Léger, Courbet, Maîtres d’autrefois ser. (Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1929), p. 192. Daniel Catton Rich, “Mère Grégoire,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24, 4 (1930), p. 42. Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 50 (ill.), 148. “The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (1933), p. 115. 
Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p.27. Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1941), p. 33. Eleanor Jewett, “Distinguished Collections at Art Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (September 6, 1942), p. G3. Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 35. Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1948), p. 32. Charles Joseph Biederman, Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge (Red Wing, Minnesota: C. Beiderman, 1948), p. 299, fig. 100. Charles Léger, Courbet et son temps (Paris: Les Éditions universelles, 1948), p. 170, fig. 45. E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs…, vol. 2 (Paris: Librairie Gründ, repr. 1949), p. 681. Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1950), p. 33. Douglas Cooper, “Reflections on the Venice Biennale,” Burlington Magazine 96, 619 (1954), p. 322. Rodolfo Pallucchini, “The Venice Biennale,” Burlington Magazine 97, 624 (1955), pp. 86–87. Adriana Albini, Courbert alla XXVII Biennale di Venezia (Venice: Lambroso, 1954), n. p., ill. “Gustave Courbet,” Sele Arte, “Biennale di Venezia” (special issue) 2, 12 (1954), p. 40. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 108. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 191. Robert Fernier, La vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1978), p. 200, no. 952. Charles Joseph Biederman, Search for New Arts (Red Wing, Minnesota: Art History, 1979), p. 7, fig. 6. John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), p. 70. Pierre Courthion, L’opera completa di Courbet (Milan: Rizzoli, 1985), p. 126, no. 946; French trans. (Paris: Flammarion, 1987); (Paris, Flammarion, 1995). Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings: From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), vol. 1, p. 550; vol. 2, 685. Musées d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève, Gustave Courbet: Les années suisses, exh. cat. (Geneva, 2014), cat. 64.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
    Date
    1874
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    60 × 73 cm (23 5/8 × 28 3/4 in.); Framed: 83.9 × 96.6 × 7.7 cm (33 × 38 × 3 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    A. A. Munger Collection
    Accession no.
    1901.456

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