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
Rights
Public Domain
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...