- Title:
- The Pool
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- In July 1873 Courbet fled France for Switzerland and settled in the town of La Tour-de-Peilz on the north shore of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), near the French border. A label on the back of this view of a lush Alpine valley gives the location as Vevey, on the north shore of the lake and close to La Tour-de-Peilz. It has also been suggested that the view may be in the upper part of the Gorges de Chauderon, above Montreux, which is further east along the shore.Although Courbet painted a number of views of the lake and its surroundings, he did not paint this picture. It was instead painted by an assistant, not as a copy of a Courbet but as an independent picture that belongs to a substantial group of Swiss landscapes painted in the style of Courbet. Although it is sometimes possible to identify the assistant who produced a painting, it is not yet possible in this case.
- 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:
- 4/233/7/179/mid_N-3243-00-000012.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 72.40
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 58.70
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- probably 1870-80
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1870
- Date - latest:
- 1880
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Gustave Courbet
- Person's birth date:
- 1819
- Person's death date:
- 1877
- Object production place:
- France
- Other number:
- NG3243
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GLD-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3243
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04OG-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33243
- 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:
- landscapes
- Style:
- Barbizon
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 272-6
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 62
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 154
- 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:
- La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue raisonné
- Reference details:
- 2.248
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Courbet: To Venture Independent
- Reference details:
- 62-98
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Courbet en Suisse surveillé par la police française
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Das Bild als Parabel: Sur Landschaftsmalerei Gustave Courbets
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Egalität und Autorität in Courbet's Landschaftsmalerei
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Tate Gallery
- Reference details:
- 202
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Courbet's Landscapes and Their Market
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Courbet et la Suisse
- 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:
- Les Demoiselles des Bords de la Seine
- Reference details:
- 1-3
- Reference note:
- Additional references
- 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. 157)
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/53283e66-b535-3cda-9e32-e9c694dc61c7
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/53283e66-b535-3cda-9e32-e9c694dc61c7, National Gallery, CC BY
Is there a problem with this record? Give feedback.