Focus on The Bacchante (Courbet) and explore the Provenance.
In 1914 it was sold by the art dealers Frederik Muller & Cie of Amsterdam. Until 1968 it was in the Van Nierop collection, before passing to the Lefevre Gallery in London, from which it was acquired by doctor Gustav Rau for the foundation he was founding in Cologne. In 2011 the musée Courbet displayed an exhibition showing the links between the sculptor Auguste Clésinger and Courbet, who were close friends. These links were especially seen between Clésinger's 1847 marble work Woman Bitten by a Serpent and Courbet's The Bacchante.
Amsterdam Frederik Muller Frederik Muller & Cie Bacchante Auguste Clésinger Cologne Gustav Rau musée Courbet Woman Bitten by a Serpent