Best remembered for the incendiary politics and technique of his early peasant pictures, Courbet was not above painting for the market. Between May 1862 and May 1863, while a guest at the country estate of Étienne Baudry, a collector and amateur horticulturist, the artist turned out an accomplished series of flower still lifes with frankly commercial intentions. Mixing exotic blooms from Baudry’s greenhouses with flowers from his gardens, Courbet created compositions that defy the seasons, presenting spring tulips and lilacs alongside summer poppies and nasturtiums. The results recall 17th-century Dutch flower paintings, coveted by 19th-century collectors.
Details
- Artist Name: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)
- Title: Vase of Lilacs, Roses, and Tulips
- Date: 1863
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 25-5/8 x 21-3/8 in. (65.1 x 54.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1979.24.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
[Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, stock no. 20.880, sold 16 March 1918 to];
Fasset-Arbouin, Paris.
[Galerie Daber, Paris, sold to];
[Fritz Nathan, Zurich, sold 24 April 1957 to];
[Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, stock no. 5696, sold 22 March 1962 to];
[Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris (for Michel Fert, Geneva?), sold 2 interest to];
[M. Knoedler & Co., New York, stock no. A8314, sold 12 February 1963 to];
Mrs. Arthur Lehman, New York.
John Loeb, Sr., New York; ?consigned 1973 to;
[M. Knoedler & Co., New York, stock no. A8314, sold 1973 to];
[Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, jointly owned with];
[Reid & Lefevre, London, sold 11 December 1973 to];
[Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, stock no. 6459-2749, offered 14 November 1978 and subsequently sold 19 March 1979 to];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Courbet
- Paris, Galerie Bernheim, 1917-12 to 1918-01
Courbet
- Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1919-07-18 to 1919-07-31
Peinture 1830-1940: oeuvres de Delacroix à Maillol
- Paris, Galerie Daber, 1962-05 to
Gustave Courbet
- Kunstmuseum Bern, 1962-09-22 to 1962-11-18
Important XIX and XX century Paintings
- London, Reid & Lefevre Gallery, 1973-11-01 to 1973-12-22
[on loan]
- Princeton University Art Museum, 1979-03-14 to 1979-06-17
[on loan]
- Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 1979-06-19 to 1979-09-26
Gustave Courbet
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1959-12 to 1960-02
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1960-02 to 1960-04
Reinstallation of South Wing
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-10-07 to 1995-08-13
- Leger, C., Courbet, pl. 31 p. 96
- 1922-1972 Drs. Fritz and Peter Nathan, 1972, no. 55
- Fernier, Robert, La Vie et L'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné, Peintures 1819-1865, 1977, no. 364 pp. 206-207
- Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 121
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1618 p. 427
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