The Stream of the Black Well

1872-1877

46.5 cm 55.5 cm

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Gustave Courbet enjoyed enormous commercial success with his landscapes. He painted around 300 views of his native Franche-Comté, including some 20 examples of this secluded spot. Courbet's technique is distinctive both for his use of the palette knife and for the underlayer o...

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Alfred Prunaire Sale, June 18, 1903; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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