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View of the Church of Boccadasse in Genoa and the promontory of Portofino
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The viewer looks across a stretch of water from a rocky shoreline. At the left, on a promontory, is a cluster of buildings.
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 his 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.
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Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2006-2007 | Courbet/Not Courbet. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Measurements
H: 14 7/8 x W: 21 3/8 in. (37.8 x 54.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.876