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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.2
People
Cherubino Pata, Swiss (Sonogno 1827 - 1899 Locarno)
Previously attributed to Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Title
Waterfall in Franche-Comté
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Landscape with Trees and a Stream / Landscape with a Stream
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1880
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229394

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54.3 × 66.7 cm (21 3/8 × 26 1/4 in.)
framed: 73.3 × 86.4 × 7.6 cm (28 7/8 × 34 × 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed at l.l.: G. Courbet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Musée Courbet, Cherubino Pata (1827-1899): Le Vrai Faux-Courbet, Musée Courbet (Ornans, France, 1988), repr. in b/w no. 202, p. 145
  • Anik Morrow, "Gustave Courbet: Materials, Techniques, and Problems with the Attribution of the Painting Entitled The Mill" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1989), Unpublished, passim
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 124; repr. as no. 340

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