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| A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study") |
Artist:Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date:probably 1862
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:20 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (52.7 x 64.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922
Courbet is thought to have painted this lush landscape at Fontcouverte, in the Saintonge region of western France. In the summer of 1862 he sketched there alongside Louis-Augustin Auguin (1824–1904), its probable first owner. The canvas may have been included in an exhibition that Courbet and Auguin helped to organize at Saintes in early 1863. Another view of Fontcouverte was exhibited as a collaboration between the artists (whereabouts unknown).
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