Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009211Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi
Also known as: Grand Panorama of the Alps with the Dents du Midi
About the Artwork
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.
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
Exhibition history
Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). Gustave Courbet. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (October 1, 1977-January 2, 1978). Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (November 21, 1998-February 21, 1999). Courbet and the Modern Landscape. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 21-May 14, 2006); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (June 18-September 10, 2006). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Gustave Courbet. Les anées suisses. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve 3, Switzerland (September 5, 2014-January 4, 2015).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 172 x 230 x 8.5 cm (67 11/16 x 90 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 151.2 x 210.2 cm (59 1/2 x 82 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange
- Accession no.
- 1964.420
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