Self-Portrait with Pipe (Courbet)

Self-Portrait with Pipe is an 1849 portrait painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet.Hecker p.25 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.https://www.museefabre.fr/recherche/musee%253AMUS_BIEN%253A3649

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 Parishttps://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/objects/210988 where his A Burial at Ornans and The Stone Breakers attracted widespread notice.Eitner p.255 It is now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, having been donated to the collection by Alfred Bruyas in 1868.https://www.museefabre.fr/recherche/musee%253AMUS_BIEN%253A3649

References

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.