Gustave Courbet
French, 1819–1877
Alms from a Beggar at Ornans
1868
| Medium | graphite with stumping, squared, with touches of crayon on cream wove paper |
| Dimensions | 11 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (28.7 x 22.1 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1846 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Gustave Courbet, Alms from a Beggar at Ornans, 1868, graphite with stumping, squared, with touches of crayon on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1846
Select Bibliography
Galerie Georges Aubry.. . June 1931..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966.
Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo.. Gustave Courbet Retrospective. June 3-Aug. 6, 1989.. 1989..
Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
. L'Album Autographique: L'Art a Paris en 1868. Paris. 1868.
Théodore Duret.. Courbet.. Paris.. 1918..
Meyer Shapiro.. "Courbet and Popular Imagery.". 4.. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.. London, 1940-41..
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Provenance
Frederick N. Silberman, New York, sold to Knoedler, New York, 20 Oct. 1943; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 27 Oct. 1943, as The Traveling Peddler]; Robert Sterling Clark (1943–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
