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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:
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.
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 ...
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Courbet first exhibited the work at the Paris Salon in April 1852 entitled The Village Maids give alms to a cowherd in a valley near Ornans.It was immediately bought by the duc de Morny despite a public and press polemic against the work – for example, the art critic Théophile Gautier expressesd reservations and felt the canvas was under-finished, [4] whilst Gustave Planche, Eugène Loudun ...
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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". [2]