Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

Property Belonging to the Heirs of the Estate of Eva Petschek Newman

細節

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

Deux bateaux sur la plage

signed 'G. Courbet' lower right--oil on canvas
23½ x 31 7/8in. (59.7 x 80.9cm.)

來源

Collection J.P. Mazaroz, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 13-14, 1890, no. 12 (as Mer houleuse)
Léon Tual and Paul Chavallier
C.P.M. Eugène Feral
Wildenstein, New York
Private Collection, U.S.A.

出版

R. Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, vol. II, Lausanne-Paris, 1978, pp. 184-185, no. 915 (illustrated)

展覽

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Courbet, December 2, 1948-January 8, 1949, no. 24 (illustrated on p. 33 in cat.)

拍品專文

Deux bateaux sur la plage is related to Courbet's monumental work, The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Both paintings depict boats docked on a shore by a calm sea under a blue sky. Like most of Courbet's marine paintings from this period, there is no indication of a human presence. The idea of man's relationship to nature was an important, almost obsessive occupation of many of the 19th century French painters, and in Courbet's marine scenes, nature's power over man is expressed by the majesty and infinity of the sea.