The Woodcutters

Provenance

Dr. Hermann Eißler, Vienna. Sold, Hugo Helbing, Munich, Feb. 18, 1930, lot 28. Ludwigs Galerie (Dr. Otto Nathan), Munich. Dr. Heinrich Stinnes (1867-1932), Cologne [stamp (Lugt 1376a) recto, lower left, in red (twice) and stamp (Lugt 1376d) recto, lower left and lower right, in red]. Sold, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinet, May 5, 1962, lot 639, as Holzarbeiter im Walde. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Dec. 5, 1984, lot 304, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

The Woodcutters

Gustave Courbet

1860

Accession Number

185839

Medium

Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan

Dimensions

57.7 × 46.1 cm (22 3/4 × 18 3/16 in.)

Classification

prints and drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection