Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall
Gustave Courbet
1872
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
8.5; 61; 78.5; 91.5; 73
About this artwork
Landschap met rotsen en een waterval.
About the Artist
Gustave Courbet · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who revolutionized 19th-century art as the founding figure of the Realism movement. Born in Ornans, a small town in the Doubs region of France, Courbet came from a prosperous farming family with anti-monarchical roots—his maternal grandfather had participated in the French Revolution. This background shaped his lifelong commitment to dep...