Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall
Gustave Courbet · 1872 · painting
Public domain
Public Domain Mark on the Rijksmuseum image record.
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About this picture
Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall is a public-domain painting by Gustave Courbet, dated 1872. Painting. The file comes from Rijksmuseum.
“Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall” (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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