A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study")

Gustave Courbet

probably 1862 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Courbet is thought to have painted this lush landscape at Fontcouverte, in the Saintonge region of western France. In the summer of 1862 he sketched there alongside Louis-Augustin Auguin (1824–1904), its probable first owner. The canvas may have been included in an exhibition that Courbet and Auguin helped to organize at Saintes in early 1863. Another view of Fontcouverte was exhibited as a collaboration between the artists (whereabouts unknown).

Artist

Gustave Courbet

Date

probably 1862

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922