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The Banks of a Stream

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

The Banks of a Stream

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The view is typical of sites along the river valleys near Ornans, the artist's native town in the Franche-Comté. Courbet painted many similar views of streams in shaded, woodland gullies in the 1860s and 1870s. This picture, dated 1873, was painted in the studio but extensive use of the palette knife to spread and smudge the paint, gives it the rough spontaneity of a sketch done out of doors.

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Oxford

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Title

The Banks of a Stream

Date

1873

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 60 x W 73 cm

Accession number

WA1937.50

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Mrs W. F. R. Weldon, 1937

Work type

Painting

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Gustave Courbet

1819–1877

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