Gustave COURBET

Photographic Portrait of Gustave Courbet with a cane

Carjat | Paris n. d. [ca 1860] | 6.3 x 9.1 cm | one carte-de-visite photograph

Rare original photograph on albumin paper, in visiting card format, laid down on card. Remnants of glue, paper slightly rubbed on verso, but not seriously.

Gustave Courbet met Etienne Carjat in 1859 in Germany and the two men struck up a very strong friendship.

“My dear Carjat, I care for you, as you as you know, you are my confidant in love, my biographer, you are my friend.” (Letter from Courbet, February 1863).
We have been unable to find another copy of this photograph in public collections.

Charles Baudelaire. Sa vie et son œuvre First edition on thick paper, of the first biography devoted to Charles Baudelaire, who had died two years prior.
Half navy morocco over marbled paper boards Bradel binding by Alfred Farez, the spine slightly faded, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved.
This copy complete with the 5 etching portraits of Charles Baudelaire by Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, Emile Deroy and Charles Baudelaire himself. Edouard Manet engraved the two of his, Félix Bracquemond the three others.

Autograph inscription signed by Charles...

Rare original photograph on albumen paper, in carte de visite format, mounted on a board, depicting Gustave Courbet.
Handwritten annotations on the back.
We have been able to find only one other copy of this photograph at the New York International Center of Photography.

First edition, for which there were no large paper copies.
Work decorated with several original plate illustrations by Gustave Courbet. Spine slightly split at the head also with a small section missing.
Emile Zola quotes this work in ‘L'Evénement illustré' on 5 May 1868: 'c'est là une œuvre qui fera sensation. L'auteur est un utilitaire tombant à bras raccourcis sur la bourgeoisie fainéante et oisive. (...) Courbet ne pouvait guère trouver un texte dont l'esprit convînt mieux à son genre de talent. Le Franc-Comtois a dû se réjouir en lui de ce plaidoyer en faveur des paysans, des rudes enfants de la terre. Aussi, comme il s'est mis volontiers à dauber les bourgeois, les messieurs...

Charles BAUDELAIRE & Félix BRACQUEMOND
& Gustave COURBET & Félicien ROPS & Édouard MANET
Les Fleurs du mal [Flowers of Evil]First edition printed on vélin d'Angoulême paper, complete of the six condemned pieces and bearing the usual typographical misprints of the first edition (“Feurs du mal”, pagination error...).
Jansenist binding in full red morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt date and location at the foot, gilt roll tooling on the spine ends, gilt fillet frame on the pastedown endpapers in full brown morocco adorned in their centres...

Photographic portrait of Gustave Courbet “à la canne”
Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card from the studio of Pierre Petit in Paris.
Manuscript annotations to verso.
Portraits of Courbet by Pierre Petit are very rare, the painter having been mostly photographed by Carjat, a pupil of Petit's.
We have been able to find only two copies of this photograph in the United States: one at the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, the other at the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco.

COURBET Gustave
Catalogue de l’exposition Courbet chez Bernheim-Jeune & Cie en Juillet 1919
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris 1919, 12 x 15.5 cm, stapled
First edition of this exhibition catalogue of works by Gustave Courbet shown at the Bernheim-Jeune & Cie Galleries from 18 to 31 July 1919.
A very good copy with seven reproductions of works by Gustave Courbet in this catalogue, which is No 11 in the Bulletins of the Berheim-Jeune & Cie galleries.
Marks of marginal folds throughout the fascicule, angular sunning.
Rare.