Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877)
Juliette Courbet
1873–1874
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65.5 cm
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
Juliette, the youngest of the artist’s three sisters, was to become the faithful conservator of his studio. The work Portrait of Juliette Courbet belongs to the artist’s fully mature period. Here the painter seems to have found the same sobriety of pictorial media that characterizes his portrait (also in the Masp) of their other sister, Zélie.
— Luciano Migliaccio, 1998. Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).
See also:
• Courbet, Juliette (1831-1915)