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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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