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Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas.
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas · 63.5 × 77 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Realism
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- Museum title
- Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau)
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
- Date
- 1862
- Medium
- Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.5 × 77 cm (25 × 30 5/16 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 112.4 cm (38 3/4 × 44 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.







