- Title:
- The Man with the Leather Belt: Portrait of the Artist
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- From around 1842 and into the 1850s Courbet painted about 20 self portraits in which he presented himself in different guises. This portrait is a reduced version of The Man with the Leather Belt (Musée d’Orsay, Paris), which Courbet painted around 1845--6.Courbet painted replicas of at least three of his self portraits and it was previously thought that he also painted this version of The Man with the Leather Belt. However, although this portrait is close in almost all details to the original, there are major differences between them. In particular, unlike the very finely painted Orsay picture, the brushwork is more cursory and less detailed.Recent research into the picture’s support and a label on the back also suggests that the painting dates from the early 1880s, and therefore could not have been painted by Courbet himself, who died in 1877. It is instead a copy by someone who had an excellent understanding of the original.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 634/615/106/mid_N-3240-00-000017.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 45.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 37.80
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on board
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- millboard
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- probably early 1880s
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1880
- Date - latest:
- 1882
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Gustave Courbet
- Person's birth date:
- 1819
- Person's death date:
- 1877
- Object production place:
- France
- Object production place:
- Paris
- Other number:
- NG3240
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GJK-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3240
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04OB-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33240
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- half length portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- realist
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 248-55
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 59-60
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 152
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
- Reference details:
- 91
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane and his Pictures
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Gustave Courbet 1819-1877
- Reference details:
- 90
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue raisonné
- Reference details:
- 1.58
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Courbet et son temps
- Reference details:
- 11-12, 26
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Autoportraits de Courbet
- Reference details:
- 3-8
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery, II: Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures
- Reference details:
- 229
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 156)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A closer look : deceptions and discoveries /Marjorie E. Wieseman.
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 12 (p. 15); ill. (detail) fig. 13 (p. 15); ill. (detail) fig. 14 (p. 15)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A closer look : conservation of paintings /David Bomford ; with Jill Dunkerton and Martin Wyld.
- Reference type:
- reference
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