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    Model Reading in the Studio
    Gustave Courbet. Model Reading in the Studio, c. 1849. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002463

    Model Reading in the Studio

    by Gustave Courbet

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Jean Jadot, Brussels [according to a letter from Frederick Schab to Harold Joachim dated May 20, 1968 in curatorial file]. Sold by William H. Schab Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 48 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 102-103, cat. 48 (ill.). Frankfurt, Kunstinstitut, "Courbet und Deutschland," January 17-March 18, 1979, cat. 317; also traveled to the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, October 18, 1978-January 6, 1979. France, Musée d’Ornans, "L’Oeuvre Dessinée et Sculptée de Gustave Courbet," June-October 1982. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 138-139, cat. 62 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, January-May 1986. New York, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Courbet Reconsidered," November 4, 1988-January 16, 1989, p. 208; also traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 18-April 30, 1989. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Gustave Courbet,” February 27–May 18, 2008, p 354, cat. 170, cat. by Dominique De Font-Réaulx et al The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 5, no. 3 (ill.). Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: catalogue raisonné II (Lausanne, 1978), pp. 294 and 295, no. 32 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1979), p. 39, no. 2B8. Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 26, 27, and 117 (ill.).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gustave Courbet / French, 1819-1877
    Date
    c. 1849
    Medium
    Black crayon and charcoal, with stumping and scraping, on cream wove card
    Dimensions
    56.1 × 39 cm (22 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Simeon B. Williams Fund
    Accession no.
    1968.163

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