Title: Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date: 1857
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 58 1/2 x 42 in. (148.6 x 106.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, 1919
Accession Number: 19.84
Inscription: Signed (lower left): G. Courbet.
Provenance:
?Louis Gueymard, Paris (until 1867); ?Gauthier Villars, Paris (from 1867); private collection (until 1872; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 19, 1872, no. 23, as "Scène du jeu, dans Robert le Diable"); Adolphe Reignard, Paris (by 1878–at least 1896); Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, New York (until 1919)
Original from the MET Museum
Public Domain