Gustave Courbet, 1864 - The Source of the Loue - fine art print

What does the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art state about this 19th century artwork made by Gustave Courbet? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Courbet often painted the rocky grotto at the source of the Loue, the river that flows through his native village, Ornans, in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. This view is probably one of four he mentioned to the dealer Luquet in the spring of 1864, when he wrote: "I've been to the source of the Loue these last days and made four landscapes about 1 meter 40."

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The Source of the Loue is a masterpiece by Gustave Courbet. The version of the masterpiece was painted with the size: 39 1/4 x 56 in (99,7 x 142,2 cm) and was crafted with the technique oil on canvas. Besides, this artpiece is in the the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an image ratio of 1.4 : 1, which implies that the length is 40% longer than the width. The painter, sculptor, communard Gustave Courbet was an artist, whose style was mainly Realism. The painter lived for a total of 58 years - born in the year 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and died in the year 1877.

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