Title: Monsieur Suisse
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date: 1861
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 23 1/4 x 19 3/8 in. (59.1 x 49.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number: 29.100.120
Inscription: Signed (left edge): G. Courbet.
Notes:
There is a replica of this portrait in which the sitter appears without glasses (Bénatov collection, Paris), which Fernier (1978) dates about 1871.
Original from the MET Museum
Public Domain