Pata, Cherubino und Courbet, Gustave (attr.) 1827... Lot 3969

Pata, Cherubino und Courbet, Gustave (attr.) 1827 - 1899/1819 - 1877 49 x 36,5 cm Mountainous landscape with a hut and a cascade. Oil/canvas, relined, inscribed lower right. Coll. Hirschl et Adler Sale New York 1960; Collection Munz, Stuttgart 1972; Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart 1973, there acquired by the family of the present owner. Lit.: Robert Fernier, La vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Courbet. Catalogue raisonné vol II paintings 1866-1877, Lausanne-Paris 1978, catalogue raisonné p. 246 no. 19 with ill., there classified as a work in collaboration with Cherubino Pata. In a letter (in photocopy) dated February 2015, Jean-Jacques Fernier argues in favour of one of Courbet's collaborators as the author of the work, in which Courbet himself may have set some accents and perhaps also the signature.