The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noir; vallée de la Loue) (1855)
Gustave Courbet
Oil on Canvas. French, Realist.
French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism [1800-1859]
Courbet painted events and scenery primarily from his native Ornans, a village in the remote Franche-Comté region. A proponent of realism, he challenged traditional ideas about art by depicting simple…