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The stream depicted is the Loue, a capricious creek flowing through the village of Ornans, where Courbet was born. The artist seems to have returned to this spot several times: it can be recognised in a number of his paintings [2] Of this landscape, Courbet wrote:
Pages in category "Paintings by Gustave Courbet" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. ... The Wounded Man (painting) The Wrestlers (Courbet) Y.
The Oak at Flagey (French - Le Chêne de Flagey) or The Vercingetorix Oak (Le Chêne de Vercingétorix) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, created in 1864, measuring 89 by 110 cm.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: / ˈ k ʊər b eɪ / KOOR-bay; [1] US: / k ʊər ˈ b eɪ / koor-BAY; [2] French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) [3] was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.
The Meeting or "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet" (French: La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") is an oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, made in 1854. It depicts the artist on his way to Montpellier meeting his patron Alfred Bruyas , his servant Calas, and his dog Breton.
An artist with naturalist and Realism proclivities, Gustave Courbet often painted the river Loue near Ornans, his hometown in eastern France. From 1863 to 1864, he painted a series of four paintings titled The Source of the Loue. The paintings depict rocky crags and grottos with the river flowing beneath them, a motif in keeping with Courbet's ...
The Gust of Wind is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Gustave Courbet circa 1865. It is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . [ 1 ] The Gust of Wind has been described as having "powerful diagonals".
The permanent collection, completely restored during the closure of the museum from 2008 to 2011, is composed of 75 works (paintings, drawings, sculptures, letters, archives), including 41 paintings and four sculptures of Courbet, the rest being the work of artists such as his friends Max Claudet and Max Buchon, his teacher Claude-Antoine Beau, or his followers such as Louis-Augustin Auguin ...