{"id":304846,"date":"2025-10-15T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304846\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:04:26","slug":"qatar-reveals-its-the-owner-of-courbets-famous-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304846\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Reveals It’s the Owner of Courbet’s Famous Self-Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tQatar revealed this week that it\u2019s the owner of Gustave Courbet<\/a>\u2018s famed self-portrait Le D\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9 (The Desperate Man), 1843\u201345, which went on view today at Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay. It\u2019s the first time the work has been on view in France, Courbet\u2019s home country, in 17 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe artist\u2019s piercing wild eyes now stare out from the same walls that exhibit Courbet\u2019s other famed works, including The Stone Breakers (1849) and The Origin of the World (1866). The painting will be on view at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay for five years before it is transferred to its new home in Doha, according to the Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe painting was listed as being on loan from an unknown private collector with help of French bank BNP Paribas when it was previously exhibited at the National Gallery in London<\/a> in 2006.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was also included in a Courbet retrospective held between 2007 and 2008 at the Grand Palais in Paris. That show subsequently traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Mus\u00e9e Fabre in Montpellier. The painting also appeared at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 2010 and 2011.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe work was later acquired by Qatar Museums, a state body that oversees the Emirati art scene. It is unclear how they acquired it or how much was paid for the artwork.<\/p>\n

\n\tAl-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, head of Qatar Museums and sister of the Gulf state\u2019s ruler, acknowledged Qatar\u2019s ownership of the painting while she was at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in Paris for a tribute honoring the late Sylvain Amic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn his memory, we unveiled Gustave Courbet\u2019s Le D\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9, a painting that will be on long-term loan from the future Art Mill Museum Collection to the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay until our museum opens,\u201d she wrote on Instagram. \u201cIt will then travel between our institutions, reflecting Sylvain\u2019s belief that art must travel and be shared to inspire the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAl Thani revealed the ownership as Qatar\u2019s art scene undergoes a sea change. The Art Mill Museum, opening in 2030, is\u00a0being billed as Qatar\u2019s future museum of international modern and contemporary art. It is being designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and developed by the Qatar Museums in Doha.<\/p>\n

\n\tSheikha Al Mayassa is listed as one of ARTnews\u2019s Top 200 Collectors<\/a>. One of the world\u2019s biggest contemporary art buyers, she oversees art acquisitions for the Qatar Museums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qatar revealed this week that it\u2019s the owner of Gustave Courbet\u2018s famed self-portrait Le D\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9 (The Desperate Man),…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":304847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[93862,648,1032,1033,171,154564,108636,154565,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-304846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-artnews-top-200-collectors","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gustave-courbet","14":"tag-musu00e9e-dorsay","15":"tag-sheikha-al-mayassa-bint-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115377148356401054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}