The Cliff at Étretat
Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877) · after 1872 · oil on fabric
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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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About this picture
The Cliff at Étretat is a CC0 painting by Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877), dated after 1872. Oil on fabric. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“The Cliff at Étretat” (after 1872) gives an ordinary subject — labor, a funeral, or a local landscape — the size once reserved for history painting.
About the artist
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French Realist who painted stone breakers, funerals, and the landscape of his home region at the scale once reserved for history painting.
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