Hanging Roe Deer
Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877), c. 1856-1858
oil on canvas, 187 cm x 128 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0075
- Dimensions
- 187 cm x 128 cm, 216 cm x 160 cm, 12 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist, Paris, to Galerie Détrimont, Paris for FRF 2500, 1861; auction Paris, (Tableaux anciens et modernes (…) formant la collection de feu M. Edwin Cliff, de Saint-Quentin), lot 69 (Le Chevreuil), sold for 5800, 18 January 1875; sold by Arnold & Tripp, Paris, to E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam for NLG 2400, 10 August 1898; sold by E.J. van Wisselingh & Co to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 3.600, 10 August 1898; 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
Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Masterworks from the World are Guests at our French Impressionist Collection, 26 September 2014-18 January 2015
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 65, 144-146
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 103
Barnes, Julian, Courbet e la natura, Ferrara, 2018, p. 32-33