The Lake, Near Saint-Point
Artist:
Gustave Courbet
(French, 1819 - 1877)
Culture: French
Date: 1872
Place made:Ornans, France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 1/4 x 23 in. (48.9 x 58.4 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 2005.1.166
Signed: Signed lower left: G. Courbet
Provenance: Dr. J. Leguin, Bruxelles by 1890; Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, after 1890; Judge William Caleb Loring (1851-1930), Boston, by 1915; sold by Schoneman Galleries, Inc., New York to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1957; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005
Label Text
Under a dramatic sky, a trio of fishermen casts off onto Saint-Point, one of the largest lakes in France, located near the Swiss border. Thick strokes of paint laid on with a palette knife contribute to the feeling of an impending tempest. Gustave Courbet painted this scene while staying with friends near the lake in November 1872.
A rule-breaker all his life, Gustave Courbet believed in representing the world as he saw it, without the idealization that centuries of academic art theory had advocated. He was the center of a loosely organized movement in nineteenth-century France called Realism, which emphasized the direct observation and representation of modern life.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2018)
A rule-breaker all his life, Gustave Courbet believed in representing the world as he saw it, without the idealization that centuries of academic art theory had advocated. He was the center of a loosely organized movement in nineteenth-century France called Realism, which emphasized the direct observation and representation of modern life.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2018)
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