Self-Portrait with Pipe (Courbet)
| Self-Portrait with Pipe | |
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| Artist | Gustave Courbet |
| Year | 1849 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 45.8 cm × 37.8 cm (18.0 in × 14.9 in) |
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Self-Portrait with Pipe is an 1849 portrait painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet.[1] A self-portrait, it shows him with a workman's smock with a small pipe in his mouth. He captures the air of a Romantic bohemian he tried to cultivate in his younger years.[2]
Courbet was a leading figure in the Realist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. The self-portrait was displayed at the Salon of 1850 at the Palais-Royal in Paris[3] where his A Burial at Ornans and The Stone Breakers attracted widespread notice.[4] It is now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, having been donated to the collection by Alfred Bruyas in 1868.[5]
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Bibliography
- Eitner, Lorenz. An Outline Of 19th Century European Painting: From David Through Cezanne. Routledge, 2021.
- Hecker, Sharon. A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture. University of California Press, 2017.