Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi
1877
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi, 1877. Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877). Oil on fabric; framed: 172 x 230 x 8.5 cm (67 11/16 x 90 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 151.2 x 210.2 cm (59 1/2 x 82 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange 1964.420 This late, unfinished painting reveals some of Courbet's techniques. At the top of the mountains you can see how different brushstrokes and thickly applied paint were used to differentiate the texture of the clouds from the snow.
- Maker/Artist
- Courbet, Gustave
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 172 x 230 x 8.5 cm (67 11/16 x 90 9/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 151.2 x 210.2 cm (59 1/2 x 82 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1964.420
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1964), Gustave Courbet, Courbet, Artist and Entrepeneur, Courbet and the Modern Landscape, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Gustave Courbet. Les anées suisses, <em>Gustave Courbet.</em> Grand Palais, Paris, France; Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom: (1819-1877).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 220 19th Century European
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