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Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi

Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi

1877
(French, 1819–1877)
Framed: 172 x 230 x 8.5 cm (67 11/16 x 90 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 151.2 x 210.2 cm (59 1/2 x 82 3/4 in.)

Did You Know?

This late, unfinished painting reveals some of Courbet's techniques. At the top of the mountains you can see how different brushstrokes and thickly applied paint were used to differentiate the texture of the clouds from the snow.

Description

Courbet was still working on this large landscape, intended for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1879, when he died in December 1877. He painted it during his exile in Switzerland, where he had fled after being condemned for subversive activities in the Paris Commune of 1871. The view looks south over Lake Geneva toward the mountains called Les Dents du Midi. While some areas are heavily worked with a palette knife, the lower right remains unfinished.
  • ?-1915
    Juliette Courbet [1831-1915], sister of the artist, by descent to Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre
    1915-1919
    Mmes de Tastes and Lapierre
    1919
    (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, July 9, 1919 (lot 12), La Dent du Midi, sold to Galerie Barbazanges)
    1919
    (Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France)
    Mrs. Hennet Collection, Paris, France
    Private collection, Paris, France
    ?-1964
    (Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1964-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Riat, Georges, and Paul Vitry. Gustave Courbet, peintre. Paris, France: H. Floury, 1906. Reproduced: p. 356
    Léger, Charles. Courbet et son temps; lettres et documents inédits. Paris, France: Éditions universelles, 1948. Reproduced: p. 167
    "Year in Review for 1964." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LI, no. 12 (December, 1964): 236-267. Reproduced: p. 248, no.73; Mentioned: p. 263
    Francis, Henry S. "Reports of the Departments: Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LII no. 6 (June, 1965): 143-145. Mentioned: p. 144
    “Grand Panorama Des Alpes, Ou La Dent Du Midi.” Gazette Des Beaux Arts 65 (February 1965): sup.57. Reproduced: P. 57
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 170 archive.org
    Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Gustave Corbet, Grand Panorama of the Alps with the Dent du Midi." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIII no. 3 (March, 1966):74-80. Reproduced: p. 74; Mentioned: p. 74-80 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 170 archive.org
    Hommage à Courbet: catalogue de l'exposition organisée à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort du maître-peintre : Musée-maison natale Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 2 juillet-16 octobre 1977. Paris, France: Les Amis de Gustave Courbet, 1977. Reproduced: no. 981
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 211 archive.org
    Hofman, Werner and Klaus Herding. Courbet und Deutschland: [Hamburger Kunsthalle, 19. Oktober-17. Dezember 1978, Städt. Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinst. Frankfurt am Main, 17. Januar-18. März 1979. Köln, Germany: Du Mont, 1978. Reproduced: p. 65, fig. a
    Fernier, Robert. La Vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 200-201, no. 955
    Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979. Reproduced: p. 72
    Llera Rodriguez, Ramon. “Courbet, Entre El Romanticismo y El Realismo.” Goya, no. 156 (May 1980): 351–57. Reproduced: P. 357
    Courthion, Pierre. L'opera completa di Courbet. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1985. Reproduced: p. 971
    Herding, Klaus. "Zu Courbets Spatwerk." Pantheon 44 (1986): 75-86. Reproduced: P. 80
    Herding, Klaus. "Courbet Reconsidered. Brooklyn and Minneapolis." The Burlington Magazine 131, no. 1032 (March 1989): 244-46. Reproduced: P. 245, fig. 72
    Herding, Klaus. Courbet: To Venture Independence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. Reproduced: p. 151, fig. 63
    Faunce, Sarah. Gustave Courbet. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1993. Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 45-46
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 45
    Georgel, Pierre. Courbet: le poème de la nature. Paris, France: Gallimard, 1995. Reproduced: p. 126-127
    Metken Günter. “‘Aus Hohen Bergen ..." : Alpine Malerei Zwischen Niklaus Manuel Deutsch Und Jean Le Gac.” Weltkunst 65 (June 1995): 1460-1463. Reproduced: P. 1461
    Rubin, James Henry. Courbet. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1997. Mentioned: p. 300; Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 200
    Faunce, Sarah. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): Jura Landscape, or, Jura Landscape with Shepherdess and Donkey. New York, NY: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1998. Reproduced: p. 9
    Fernier, Jean-Jacques and Clement Greenberg. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): Later Paintings. New York, NY, NY: Salander O'Reilly Galleries, 1998. Reproduced: p.77
    Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate and Jörg Zutter. Courbet: artiste et promoteur de son œuvre. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1998. Reproduced: p. 515, no. 47
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH; The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 164-165, no. 62, Vol. I
    Harrison, Colin. 1999. “Courbet for Collectors.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 149, no. 447 (May 1999): 52–53. Reproduced: P. 53
    Coen, Vittoria. Everest: l'orizzonte curvo della fantasia. Rovereto (TN): Nicolodi, 2002. Mentioned: p. 96-99; Reproduced: p. 96
    Eisenman, Stephen, and Thomas E. Crow. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. New York, NY.: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Reproduced: p. 239, fig. 10.22
    Bajou-Charpentreau, Valérie, and Gustave Courbet. Courbet. Paris, France: A. Biro, 2003. Reproduced: p, 395, 397
    Morton, Mary G., Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, and Dominique de Font-Réaulx. Courbet and the Modern Landscape. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. Reproduced: p. 239, pl. 49
    Eisenman, Stephen, and Thomas E. Crow. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Reproduced: p. 263, fig. 11.25
    Le Men, Ségolène. Courbet. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 2008. Reproduced: p. 252, pl. 200
    Radrizzani, Dominique, Huguette Radrizzani, René Radrizzani, and Françoise Lambert. Lemancolia: traité artistique du Léman. Lausanne, Switzerland: Noir sur Blanc Éditions, 2013. Reproduced: p. 142, fig. 105
    Madeline, Laurence. Gustave Courbet: Les Années Suisses. [Paris]: Art Lys, 2014. Reproduced: P. 246-247, no. 70
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 291
    "Gustave Courbet, Les Annees Suisses." L'Œil 671 (September 2014). Mentioned: p. 84; Reproduced: fig. 3
    Rubin, James Henry, and Patrick Matthiesen. Gustave Courbet: Mother and Child on a Hammock & 'Courbet in Love and Productive Disappointment'. London: Matthiesen Ltd, 2016. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 50-51, fig. 55
    Chambaz, Bernard. Le dernier tableau: de Simone Martini à Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2017. Reproduced: p. 21
    Chambaz, Bernard, and David Watson. The Last Painting: Final Works of the Great Masters from Giotto to Twombly. Woodbridge, Suffolk: ACC Art Books Ltd, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21
    Richart, Brigitte, and Alexandra Jalaber. Gustave Courbet: Paysages de Mer. Rouen: Éditions des Falaises, 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 54-55
    Trumpener, Katie, and T. J. Barringer. On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama between Canvas and Screen. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 24, fig. 0.18
    Lecomte, Georges."Le centenaire de Gustave Corbet." La Renaissance 2 (1919): 330. Reproduced: p. 330
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    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).
    Courbet and the Modern Landscape. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 21-May 14, 2006); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (June 18-September 10, 2006).
    Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (November 21, 1998-February 21, 1999).
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    Gustave Courbet. Grand Palais, Paris, France; Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom: (1819-1877).
    Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
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