Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)

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Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), ca. 1852–57. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 69 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. (176.5 x 108 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum title: Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date: ca. 1852–57
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 69 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. (176.5 x 108 cm)
Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1819–1877

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.