The collection of Baron Denys Cochin

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  Courbet

  The Houses of the Château d’Ornans

  1855 · Canvas, 97 × 122 cm

  Private collection

  See in the collection

  The houses of the hamlet of Le Château, on the rock above Ornans, painted in 1855: Fernier, no. 175, takes them from the Luquet sale of 1868 to Bernheim-Jeune in 1904, then to Baron Denys Cochin, to Hébrard, to the Prince de Wagram, to Durand-Ruel, to Knoedler, to the Rockefeller sale in New York of 24 March 1938, to Paul Rosenberg and to Stillman^[1]. Sold before the Prince de Wagram’s death, in 1918, it is not in the sale of 1919^[1].

  In his hands: Came about 1904, from Bernheim-Jeune · Left about 1918, to Hébrard

  Today: In a private collection: with Emil Georg Bührle in Zurich when Fernier appeared, in 1977^[1]. The Ragghianti foundation’s photo library keeps an old photograph of it, “collezione Emile Bührle”, 96.5 × 122 cm^[2]. It is not among the three Courbets of the Bührle foundation in Zurich^[3].

  Photograph on WikiArt, “The Houses of the Chateau D’Ornans”, public domain; Fernier reproduces it in black and white, vol. I, p. 109

  Sources (3)

  1. 1.Robert Fernier, La Vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Lausanne et Paris, Fondation Wildenstein et La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1977, tome I : notices 120, 138, 175, 183 et 206, lues dans la bibliothèque numérique du Wildenstein Plattner Institute, tome I, p. 108, n° 175.

     Reference work · partly read (restricted access), 7 October 2026 · view ↗

     « Les Maisons du château d’Ornans. 1855. Toile, 0,97 x 1,22. Histoire : Luquet, vente 1868 — Bernheim jeune, 1904 — Baron Denys Cochin — Hébrard — Prince de Wagram — Durand-Ruel — Knoedler, New York — Rockefeller, New York, vente 24 mars 1938 — Paul Rosenberg, New York — J. Stillman — Emil Georg Bührle, Zürich. »

  2. 2.Fondazione Ragghianti, fototeca, scheda OA 61895 : Courbet, Gustave, Chateau d’Ornans, photographie ancienne, collezione Emile G. Bührle, scheda OA 61895.

     Reference work · read in full, 7 October 2026 · view ↗

     « Courbet, Gustave, Chateau d’Ornans. Olio su tela, cm 96.5 × 122. Estremi cronologici 1853. Localizzazione ultima rilevata: Collezione Emile G. Bührle. »

  3. 3.Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich, Gustave Courbet : les trois œuvres de la collection, Gustave Courbet.

     Reference work · read in full, 7 October 2026 · view ↗

     « Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 1819–1877, La-Tour-de-Peilz. Portrait of a Man, 1849/50. The Sculptor Louis-Joseph Lebœuf, 1863. Winter Landscape with Deer, 1866. »