Currently not on view
The Spring
forgery after Gustave Courbet, 1819–1877; born Ornans, France; died La-Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
y1955-3251
Information
Title
The Spring
Maker
forgery after Gustave Courbet
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50 x 60.7 cm (19 11/16 x 23 7/8 in.)
frame: 78.1 x 89.2 x 10.3 cm (30 3/4 x 35 1/8 x 4 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1955-3251
Inscription
lower left, in red: G. Courbet
Culture
Type
Subject
S. Laemmle, Los Angeles, 1939. Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale 1599, May 11, 1955, no. 71; 1955 museum purchase.
- Modern paintings, drawings and prints. 1955 May 11, (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1955)., no. 71
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 40[? -obscured on card] - "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 26-27., p. 27
- Seventeenth century landscapes: Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch: problems of authenticity in nineteenth and twentieth century art, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1973)., p. 18, no. 9
- Peter C. Sutton, Nancy Hall-Duncan, James Martin, Abigail D. Newman, Fakes and forgeries: the art of deception, (Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum, 2007)., p. 120, no. 51, p. 121 (illus.)
