Portrait of a Boy | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.13
People: Attributed to Gustave Courbet, French (Ornans, France 1819 - 1877 La Tour-de-Peilzy, near Vevey, Switzerland)
Title: Portrait of a Boy
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1840-1849
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/228991

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on paper laid down on canvas

Dimensions

13.34 x 12.7 cm (5 1/4 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.l.: G.C.
inscription: Bowron's 1990 book notes initials G. C. at l.l. as "signed or inscribed."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Charles A. Walker, sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, 1919, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year: 1949
Object Number: 1949.13
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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Entitled The Mill" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1989), Unpublished, passim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. 103; repr. as no. 286

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