# The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noir; vallée de la Loue)

- By: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819 - 1877)
- Date: 1855
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 104 x 137 cm (40 15/16 x 53 15/16 in.) ; framed: 136.53 × 170.18 × 11.11 cm (53 3/4 × 67 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. P.H.B. Frelinghuysen in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.30231.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/b1a9422d-2050-4030-b8db-d3969c3eb2cd/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)