Château d’Ornans

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Château d’Ornans

Gustave Courbet

Date
1855
Medium
Oil on canvas
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

The country around his native town of Ornans, in eastern France, inspired most of Gustave Courbet's paintings. Like his contemporaries who worked near Barbizon, Courbet revitalized the landscape tradition with views of distinctive regional features observed at first hand. The town of Ornans appears in the valley below. Europe

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