Gustave COURBET (1819 - 1877). - Lot 15

Gustave COURBET (1819 - 1877). The Bonnevaux Valley or Rocks at Ornans, circa 1866. Oil on canvas, signed lower left. 63.5 x 86 cm. (Small restoration in the lower left). Provenance : - Sale of twelve paintings by Gustave Courbet, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 1, 1892, catalog no. 12 under the title Valais de Bonneveaux. - Former Croal Thomsen Collection, London. - Former Goetz Collection, Paris. - Sale of the collection of Monsieur L. L..., Palais Galliera, Paris, June 18, 1962, catalog no. 74 under the title: Rivière dans les gorges. Exhibitions : - Gustave Courbet, Kunsthaus Zurich, December 15, 1935 - March 31, 1936, N°35 reproduced on plate XI of the catalog under the title: Felsen bei Ornans (Cliffs near Ornans, circa 1855). - Courbet in French private collections, Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris Aubry, Paris, May 5 - June 25 1966, N°24. Bibliography : - Courbet par Charles Léger - Collection Maîtres d'Autrefois, Crès éditeur, Paris, 1929, reproduced on page 60 under the title: Rochers à Ornans. - Catalog Courbet dans les collections privées françaises - Exhibition organized in aid of the Musée Courbet - Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris, May 5 - June 25 1966, described and reproduced under N°24, with date 1869 and title Paysage Franc-Comtois. - Gustave Courbet, Peintre de l'Art vivant by Robert Fernier, La Bibliothèque des Arts éditeurs, Paris, 1969 reproduced on page 35 as N° 21. - The life and work of Gustave Courbet - catalog raisonné by Robert Fernier, Fondation Wildenstein - La Bibliothèque des Arts éditeurs, Lausanne-Paris, 1978, described and reproduced on pages 28 & 29 under N° 572 tome II. A certificate from Gaston Delestre dated July 10, 1967 will be given to the purchaser (dated circa 1869).