Focus on this artwork and discuss the History and provenance.
He presented it to the Paris Salon jury, which accepted it and exhibited it on 15 June 1857, with five other paintings of his autorship, two portraits and three landscapes. 
It was bought by Courbet's friend and patron Étienne Baudry (1830–1908), then was bequeathed by him to the painter's sister Juliette, who left it to the French state in 1906. It now hangs in the Petit Palais, in Paris.
Paris Salon Petit Palais left Paris Étienne Baudry