View of Ornans
Gustave Courbet
probably mid-1850s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Alice Tully, 1993
Accession Number
1995.537
Tags
TownsRiversLandscapes
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...