Le Désespéré
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Le Désespéré (Desperation or The Desperate Man) is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, produced in 1843–1845, early during his stay in Paris. It is now in the private collection of the Conseil Investissement Art BNP Paribas but was displayed in the Musée d'Orsay's 2007 Courbet exhibition.[1]
In the 1840s Courbet produced portraits of his friends and clients as well as self-portraits, including Self-Portrait with a Black Dog (1842). He spent time in the Louvre copying works by José de Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Diego Velasquez and Rembrandt[2] which started to influence his work. He broke from his traditional vertical format for the work. He was attached to Le Désespéré, taking it with him when he went into exile in Switzerland in 1873. A few years later doctor Paul Collin's description of Courbet's studio included a mention of "a painting showing Courbet with a desperate expression, for this reason entitled Désespoir".[3]
See also
- Self-portraiture
References
Bibliography (in French)
- Courbet on the website of the Musée d'Orsay
- Le désespéré: a short video on Dailymotion
- Coli Jorge : « L’Atelier de Courbet », in : Art Absolument, Autumn 2007, no. 22, p. 59–63
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- List of paintings
- Self-Portrait with a Black Dog (1842)
- Le Désespéré (1843–1845)
- The Happy Lovers (1844)
- The Bacchante (1844–1847)
- Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (c. 1848)
- After Dinner at Ornans (1848–1849)
- The Stone Breakers (1849)
- A Burial at Ornans (1850)
- Young Ladies of the Village (1852)
- The Wrestlers (1853)
- The Bathers (1853)
- La rencontre (1854)
- The Wounded Man (1854)
- The Wheat Sifters (1854)
- The Seaside at Palavas (1854)
- The Painter's Studio (1855)
- Madame Auguste Cuoq (c. 1852–1857)
- Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (1857)
- The Quarry (1857)
- The Hunt Breakfast (1858)
- Deer by Water (1861)
- Femme nue couchée (1862)
- The Source (1862)
- The Source of the Loue (1863–1864)
- The Oak at Flagey (1864)
- Proudhon and His Children (1865)
- Portrait of Countess Karoly (1865)
- Le ruisseau noir (1865)
- The Fishing Boat (1865)
- L'Origine du monde (1866)
- Le Sommeil (1866)
- Woman with a Parrot (1866)
- Killing a Deer (1867)
- The Woman in the Waves (1868)
- Portrait of Paul Chenavard (1869)
- The Calm Sea (1869)
- Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman (1865–1866)
- The Wave (1869–1870)
- Still-Life with Fruit (1871–1872)
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, 1865–1866)
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