Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau)

• V. Gruet, Coup d’oeil sur l’exposition de peinture de Saintes, 1863, pp. 25-26.
• Paul Conil, L’Exposition de Saintes in Le Courrier des Deux Charente (February 19, 1863).
• La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité 13 (March 29, 1884).
• La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité 16 (April 16, 1892).
• “G. Courbet au Salon d’Automne,” Les Arts 59 (November 1906), p. 22 (ill.), as Portrait de Femme.
• Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d’Art Faites en France et à l’Etranger vol. 2 (Paris, 1911), p. 283.
• “Courbet a Saintes,” Bulletin de Saintonge & D’Aunis: Bulletin de la Societé des Archives Historiques 18 (August 1919), p. 296.
• André Fontainas and Louis Vauxcelles, Histoire générale de l’art français de la révolution à nos jours vol. 1 (Paris, 1922), p. 96 (ill.).
• Les Albums d’Art Druet: Courbet VIII (Paris, 1927), plate 15.
• Camille Gronkowski, “L’Exposition Gustave Courbet au Petit Palais,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts pér. 6, vol. 1 (1929), p. 26.
• Charles Léger, Courbet (Paris, 1929), p. 95.
• Pierre Courthion, Art et Artistes Francais: Courbet (Paris, 1931), pl. 55.
• Scherz Kunstbücher, Courbet (Bern, 1947), pl. 35.
• Pierre Cailler, ed., Courbet Raconté Par Lui-Même et Pars ses Amis vol. 2 (Geneva: 1950), p. 10 (ill.).
• Art News 58, 9 (January 1960), p. 48.
• Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, “Gustave Courbet: Madame Boreau,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, 4 (April 1962), pp. 66, 68, fig. 2.
• Sandra Pinto, Courbet (Paris, 1970), pp 35-36, no. 46.
• Roger Bonniot, Gustave Courbet en Saintonge 1862 – 1893 (Paris, 1973), p. 216, fig. 51.
• Marcel Zahar, “Une exposition Gustave Courbet,” Les Amis de Gustave Courbet no. 54 (1975), pp. 4-5, no. 6.
• Kunstchronik 30, 10 (1977), pp. 438, 452-3.
• Robert Fernier, La Vie et l’Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet. Catalogue raisonné vol. 1 (Paris, 1977), p. 192, no. 334 (ill).
• German Masters of the Nineteenth-Century: Paintings and Drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), pp. 33, fig. 23.
• Pierre Courthion, L’Opera Completa di Courbet (Milan, 1985), p. 91, fig. 320.
• The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1987-88 (Chicago, 1988), pp. 2 (pl. 2), 27, 65.
• The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), pp. 112-13 (ill.).

• Saintes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Explication des Ouvrages de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1863, cat. 166, as Rêverie.
• Paris, Galerie Martinet, 1863.
• Paris, Salon d’Automne, Rétrospective Courbet, 1906.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Französische Kunst Des XIX u. XX Jahrhunderts, October 5- November 14, 1917, cat. 69, fig. 1, as Portrait de Mme. B.
• Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Grands Maîtres de XIXe Siècle, 1922, cat. 30, as Portrait de Madame Boreau.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1929, cat. 19.
• Paris, Palais Des Beaux-Arts (Petit Palais), Exposition Gustave Courbet, May – June 1929, cat. 18, as Portrait de Madame Boreau.
• Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Courbet, 1937, cat. 12, as Portrait de Madame Boreau.
• London, Rosenberg & Helft, Ltd., Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), May 10 – June 11, 1938, cat. 9, as Portrait of Madame Boreau.
• Copenhagen, Carlsberg Glyptotek, Portraits français de Largillierre à Manet, October 15 – November 15, 1960, cat. 9, as Portrait de Madame Boreau.
• Paris, Galerie Daber, Peinture 1830-1940: Oeuvres de Delacroix á Maillol, May 1962, pl. 2 and 8, cat. 10, as Portrait de Madame Boreau.
• Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Gustave Courbet, September 22-November 18, 1962, cat. 24, as Portrait de Madame Boreau.
• Rome, Mostra all’Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877), October 28, 1969 – January 6, 1970, cat. 17, pl 17.
• Paris, Galerie Daber, Courbet 1819 – 1877, October 16 – November 15, 1975, cat. 6.
• Paris, Grand Palais, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), September 30, 1977 – January 21, 1978, cat. 67, as La rêverie, portrait de Gabrielle Borreau.
• Hamburg Kunsthalle, Courbet und Deutschland, October 1978 – March 1979, cat. 242, as Träumerei, Bildnis Gabrielle Borreau (La rêverie, portrait de Gabrielle Borreau).
• New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Courbet Reconsidered, 1988, cat. 39 (ill.).
• Lausanne, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Gustave Courbet : en revoltör lanserar sitt verk : utställningen har producerats av Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne i samarbete med Nationalmuseum, November 21, 1998–March 7, 1999; traveled to Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, March 26–May 30, 1999.

Collection Dussol; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 17, 1884, lot 26 for 1,950 francs [according to La Chronique de la Curiosité 1884, and letter of November 13, 1987 from Stephen Hahn, in curatorial file]. Martin; his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 4-7, 1892, lot 26 (ill.) for 1,800 francs [according to La Chronique de la Curiosité 1892, and letter cited above]. Théodore Duret [according to letter citied above and Fernier 1977]. E. Larcade, 1922 [lent to Paris 1922]. Collection Mlle Sée, Paris, until purchased jointly by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris and Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris, on December 8, 1925 [Bernheim Jeune stock no. 24.513, information from letter of July 11, 2000 from Guy-Pactrice Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune, in curatorial file]; sold by them to Alphonse Kann (died 1948), St. Germain-en-Laye and London on April 8, 1931 [according to Dauberville’s letter cited above]; by descent to Michael Stewart, London; sold by him through Arthur Tooth, London, 1959 [information supplied by Madeleine Korn; see also Art News 1960 and Fernier 1977]. Alfred Daber Galerie, Paris by 1960 until at least 1975 [lent to Copenhagen 1960 and Paris 1975]. Stephen Hahn, New York by 1983; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.

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