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View of Ornans

View of Ornans






Date : approx. between 1852 and 1858

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bequest of Alice Tully (1993)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture
First Floor
Item 8 on 10
French Painting
Painting

Area related
Ornans (France)
Site related :
Courbet


Description   

The landscape, probably painted in the mid 1850s, stands at the beginning of a long series of views of the countryside of the artist's native town. It may be identified by the distinctive church steeple that rises above the cluster of houses along the banks of the river Loue. The cliff in the distance is the Roche du Mont. The bridge traditionally has been identified as that of the town of Serey-en-Varais, located a few miles downstream from Ornans.
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