The Valley of Les Puits-Noir
Gustave Courbet
1868
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
111.1 × 137.8 cm (43 3/4 × 54 1/4 in.); Framed: 132.8 × 159.1 × 10.2 cm (52 1/4 × 62 5/8 × 4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3546
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...