Cherubino Pata (1827-1899)
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Cherubino Pata (1827-1899)

Le miroir de Scey-en-Varais

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Cherubino Pata (1827-1899)
Le miroir de Scey-en-Varais
with signature and date 'G. Courbet 73' (lower right)
oil on canvas
255/8 x 317/8 in. (65 x 81 cm.)
Literature
K. Herding, Egalität und Autorität in Courbets Landschaftsmalerei in Städel-Jahrbuch, Frankfurt, 1975, p. 159.
P. Courthion, Gustave Courbet, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Courbet, Paris, 1987, no. 877.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, La joie de peindre, June-July 1974, no. 15 (as by Courbet).
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Courbet 1819-1877, Cinquantenaire de la Galerie Daber, Oct.-Nov. 1975, no. 16 (as by Courbet).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Courbet und Deutschland, Oct.-Dec. 1978, no. 295 (listed in catalogue as by Courbet); this exhibition later travelled to Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie.
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Lot Essay

The present work, previously ascribed to Gustave Courbet and exhibited as such in the 1970s, is now understood to be the work of Cherubino Pata, Courbet's assistant in his final years of exile in Switzerland.

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