This picture is one of the artist's early works painted
before 1850.
Provenance: since 1926 The Pushkin Museum of Fine
Arts, Moscow
Bibliography: Reau 1929, No 465; А. Тихомиров, Гюстав Курбе, Moscow, 1965, p. 170
131 IN A HAMMOCK
132 A HUT IN THE MOUNTAINS
Oil on canvas. 33 X 49 cm. Inv. No 3542
Signed lower right: G. Courbet
The picture was painted in Switzerland, during the
last years of the artist's life.
Provenance: until 1918 The S. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; 1918—26 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; 1926—38 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; 1938—48 The Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Exhibitions: 1920 Moscow; 1939 Moscow, Cat., p. 44; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 39; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 30; 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 23; 1965 Bordeaux, Cat., p. 49; 1965—66 Paris, Cat., p. 52
Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957," p. 76, ill; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 105; Кат. собр. С. Щукина 1913, No 70, p. 18; Тугендхольд 1914, p. 8; Перцов 1921, p. 110, No 70; Тугендхольд 1923, p. 16, ill. 9; Ternovetz 1925, p. 456, ill.; Reau 1929, No 466; Sterling 1957, ill. 64, p. 85; K. Klingenburg, Gustave Courbet, Berlin, 1960, p. 42, ill.; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 120; Musee de Moscou 1963, p. 159, ill.; ГМИИ 1966, No 83
132 A HUT IN THE MOUNTAINS
133 THE SEA. 1867
Oil on canvas. 103 X 126 cm. Inv. No 969 Signed and dated lower right: G. Courbet 67 In the collection of S. Tretyakov the picture was listed as Sea View in Brittany. In the Pushkin Museum Catalogue (1961), the painting was entitled The Sea: the Coast of Normandy on the basis of its date, for it was in Normandy that Courbet worked in the late 1860s.
According to P. Fernier, the Pushkin Museum picture was exhibited as View of the Mediterranean. Ma-guelonne, near Montpellier, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1882, and is a replica of the 1858 canvas, now in the possession of the Musee des Arts at Saint-Gall in Switzerland.
Provenance: until 1892 The S. Tretyakov Collection, Moscow (acquired in Paris through the agency of the painter A. Bogoliubov); 1892—1925 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; since 1925 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Exhibitions: 1882 Paris (entitled View of the Mediterranean. Maguelonne, near Montpellier); 1939 Moscow, Cat., p. 43; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 39; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 30; 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 23 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 43 (entitled The Sea at the Shore of Brittany); Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 76; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 105; Опись галереи Третьяковых 1894, No 132 (entitled Sea View in Brittany); Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1917, No 3910 (entitled The Sea by the Shores of Brittany); Th. Duret; Courbet, 1918, p. 148; Перцов 1921, p. 18; Reau 1929, No 464, ill.; Sterling 1957, ill. 63, p. 84; K. Klin-genburg, Gustave Courbet, Berlin, 1960, p. 36, ill.; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 119; Яворская 1962, p. 249, ill.; А. Тихомиров, Гюстав Курбе, Moscow, 1965, pp. 170— 171, ill.