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Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall
Gustave Courbet, 1872
At the time of the Hague School, the French painter Courbet enjoyed a certain notoriety. He styled himself as a rebel and refused to align himself with any spe-cific style. Instead he began a one-man movement: ‘Realism’. He tried to render the ruggedness of nature by applying the paint to the canvas spontaneously, often with a palette knife. He painted these cliffs in the Jura Mountains in the vicinity of his native Ornans.
- Artwork typepainting
- Object numberSK-A-1864
- Dimensionsheight 61 cm x width 73 cm, height 78.5 cm x width 91.5 cm x thickness 8.5 cm
- Physical characteristicsoil on canvas