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Source Description
The relatively few drawings that Gustave Courbet produced include the group of landscapes to which this example belongs. Rather than referencing a specific place, it combines a wide range of source material—tourist destinations the artist visited in Switzerland, his home in the Franche-Comté region, and paintings by Claude Lorrain and other historical landscapists. Courbet began by applying a hazy middletone in charcoal before adding detail with a darker, sharpened stick. Although surely appealing to collectors of the time, such works also had ideological significance, presenting an untouched terrain that suggested independence and freedom.
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Document identity
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148739
label
Landscape with Large Trees
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
148739
contentType
drawing
title
Landscape with Large Trees
description
The relatively few drawings that Gustave Courbet produced include the group of landscapes to which this example belongs. Rather than referencing a specific place, it combines a wide range of source material—tourist destinations the artist visited in Switzerland, his home in the Franche-Comté region, and paintings by Claude Lorrain and other historical landscapists. Courbet began by applying a hazy middletone in charcoal before adding detail with a darker, sharpened stick. Although surely appealing to collectors of the time, such works also had ideological significance, presenting an untouched terrain that suggested independence and freedom.
date
c. 1870
citation
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79929183
creators
1600
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Drawing
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 38.1 x 52.4 cm (15 x 20 5/8 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1976.18
Source extras
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black chalk with stumping on brown wove paper
tombstone
Landscape with Large Trees, c. 1870. Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877). Black chalk with stumping on brown wove paper; sheet: 38.1 x 52.4 cm (15 x 20 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1976.18
supportMaterials
description
brown wove paper (discolored)
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower left, in black crayon: Gustave Courbet.
didYouKnow
The slightly blurred appearance of this drawing recalls a similar effect common in early landscape photography.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1976." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 2 (1977): 39-78.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 52, no. 52
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 211
citation
Fernier, Robert. <em>La Vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue raisonné</em>. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1978.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2: p. 302-3, no. 48
citation
Hofmann, Werner, and Klaus Herding. <em>Courbet und Deutschland</em>. Exh. cat. Hamburg: Kunsthalle, 1978.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 357, no. 326
citation
Heilmann, Christoph H., Michael Clarke, and John Sillevis. <em>Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: “Les Amis de la nature.” </em>Exh. cat. Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1996.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 389, no. c16; Reproduced: p. 371
citation
Güdel, Niklaus Manuel, Anne-Sophie Poirot, and Philippe Clerc. <em>Gustave Courbet: Les Dessins</em>. Paris: Les Cahiers dessinés, 2019.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 175, 361, no. 54; Reproduced: pp. 37 (as no. 49), 177
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116-117, no. 17
catalogueRaisonne
Fernier 48; Güdel 54
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 07:38:18.708000
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148739
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black chalk with stumping on brown wove paper
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male
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photo
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