Sleeping Girl
Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877), 1866
oil on canvas, 50.5 cm x 65.5 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0074
- Dimensions
- 50.5 cm x 65.5 cm, 83.5 cm x 98.6 cm, 13.5 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Durand-Ruel at Hôtel Drouot (Trente-trois Tableaux et Études par Gustave Courbet et dépendant de sa succession), lot 18 (Jeune fille endormie), purchased by Schiff for FRF 4550, 9 December 1881; acquired by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Den Haag, probably from E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, before May 1886; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Gustave Courbet
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
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