The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noir; vallée de la Loue)
Gustave Courbet · 1855 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noir; vallée de la Loue) is a public-domain painting by Gustave Courbet, dated 1855. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noir; vallée de la Loue)” (1855) 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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