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| Keywords: Follower of Gustave Courbet - View of Lake Geneva - Walters 37876.jpg The viewer looks across a stretch of water from a rocky shoreline At the left on a promontory is a cluster of buildings Though the architecture and the terrain are in keeping with a site on Lake Geneva the specific scene has not been identified The rather crude handling of the pigments has little in common with the work of Courbet Robert Fernier president of the Amis de Courbet concluded in a letter to the museum of 1972 that this work might have been painted by the master's follower from Ticino Chérubino Pata 1827-1899 who is known to have been responsible for a number of forgeries dating from Courbet's last years in Switzerland before 1881 Oil on canvas cm 37 8 54 3 accession number 37 876 29580 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Signature signed at lower right G Courbet Courbet/Not Courbet The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2007 place of origin Bordeaux France Walters Art Museum license 2D French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 1880s landscape paintings Paintings of Lake Geneva | ||||
