Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001619Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant)
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: G. Courbet
Provenance
Possibly Carlin; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 29, 1872, no. 4 as Petite plage. Possibly Jourde; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 4, 1881, no. 22 as Plage to Mr. Brame for 890 francs [buyer and price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. Sold Paris, Palais Galliera, June 19, 1962, lot 19. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago; by inheritance to his sister Lily Ireland, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 2001.
Publications
Robert Fernier, La vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Courbet: catalogue raisonné, vol. 1 (Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1977), pp. 266–67, no. 500 (ill.). Pierre Courthion, L’opera completa di Courbet (Milan: Rizzoli, 1985), pp. 99–100, no. 466. Pierre Courthion, Tout l’œuvre peint de Courbet (Paris: Flammarion, 1995), pp. 99–100, no. 466. Ségolène Le Men, Courbet (New York: Abbeville Press, 2008), p. 337, pl. 272.
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
- 1865
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.9 × 60 cm (14 1/8 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 53.7 × 77.5 × 8.9 cm (21 1/8 × 30 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Lily Ireland
- Accession no.
- 2001.333
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