Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall
Also titled Landschap met rotsen en waterval
Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819–1877)
1872
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 61 cm x width 73 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
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.
