The Oak at Flagey

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The Oak at Flagey
Gustave Courbet - Le chêne de Flagey.jpg
ArtistGustave Courbet
Year1864
LocationMusée Courbet, Paris

The Oak at Flagey (French - Le Chêne de Flagey) or The Vercingetorix Oak (Le Chêne de Vercingétorix) is an 1864 landscape painting by Gustave Courbet, measuring 89 by 110 cm. It shows an oak near the Courbet family farm in the village of Flagey, Doubs, a few kilometres from Ornans in Franche-Comté, named in relation to Vercingetorix. The oak was later struck by lightning and no longer survives.

In 1880 the artist's sister Juliette Courbet sold it to the banker and on the latter's death it was offered to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1896. It was sold at Sotheby's New York in 1987 to a Japanese collector, , for $450 000. It was then bought for 4.5 million Euros in 2012 by the musée Courbet, including 2.7 million Euros from private donations and 1.3 million Euros from public funds. It was lent to the Volez, Voguez, Voyagez exhibition on Louis Vuitton at the Grand Palais.

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