Gustave Courbet [The Meeting(La Rencontre)] or [Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet] 1854

◧ Artist: Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

◧ Country: France
◧ Title: [The Meeting(La Rencontre)]/[Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 132 x 150.5 cm (51.9" x 59.2")

◧ Museum: Fabre Museum, Montpellier, France

◧ Country of Stamp Issue: France
◧ Date of Issue: Nov. 12, 1962
◧ Face Value: 50 Franc
◧ Issued as Arts series

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[The Meeting] is traditionally interpreted as Courbet greeted by his patron Alfred Bruyas, his servant Calas, and his dog while traveling to Montpellier. The composition is based on the Wandering Jew. The Meeting was exhibited in Paris at the 1855 Exhibition Universelle, where critics ridiculed it as "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet". The patron Alfred Bruyas did not exhibit [The Meeting] again until he donated it to the Musée Fabre (Fabre Museum) in Montpellier in 1868. (excerpt from Wikipedia)

[The Meeting] is still at the Fabre Museum.

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