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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
The Fox in the Snow, 1860
Oil on canvas; 33 3/4 x 50 5/16 in. (82 x 127 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, Mrs. John. B. O'Hara Fund
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This painting, exhibited at the Salon of 1861, marks the first appearance of the fox as a motif in Courbet's oeuvre, while the wintry landscape background prefigures his "paysages de neige" of 1866–67. Here the fox appears as hunter rather than prey, its predatory pose recalling Courbet's portrayal of its domestic counterpart, the white cat playing with a ball of yarn in The Painter's Studio of 1855. This painting was purchased by Khalil-Bey, the Turkish collector who commissioned both The Origin of the World and Sleep.
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