The collection of Baron Denys Cochin

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  Courbet

  Portrait of Zélie Courbet

  1853 · Canvas, 56.5 × 46.5 cm

  Museu de Arte de São Paulo ↗

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  Zélie, the painter’s sister, painted in 1853, bearing the Courbet sale stamp: Fernier, no. 138, has it knocked down to Baron Denys Cochin for 17,000 francs, against an asking price of 12,000, at the Juliette Courbet sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 9 July 1919, lot 6, three months after his own sale^[1]. The portrait then passed to madame Jacques Cochin, in Paris, and to the dealer Alfred Daber^[1].

  In his hands: Came on 9 July 1919, at the Vente Juliette Courbet, Georges Petit, 17,000 F · Left, to Madame Jacques Cochin

  Today: At the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP.00073, gift of Paulo Franco in 1951; the museum dates it 1847, 57 × 47.5 cm^[2].

  Photograph from the MASP, by João Musa, on Wikimedia Commons, “Gustave Courbet - Zélie Courbet.jpg”, public domain

  Sources (2)

  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. 84, n° 138.

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

     « Portrait de Zélie Courbet. 1853. Toile, 0,565 x 0,465. Cachet de la vente Courbet de 1919. Histoire : Juliette Courbet, vente Galerie Georges Petit, 9 juillet 1919, n° 6, adjugé 17 000 frs à M. Denys Cochin sur une demande de 12 000 — Mme Jacques Cochin, Paris — Alfred Daber — Musée d’Art de São Paulo. »

  2. 2.Museu de Arte de São Paulo, acervo en ligne, Gustave Courbet, Zélie Courbet, 1847, MASP.00073 : notice, notice.

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

     « Gustave Courbet, Zélie Courbet, 1847. Óleo sobre tela, 57 x 47,5 x 3 cm. Aquisição: Doação Paulo Franco, 1951. Número de inventário: MASP.00073. »