Paysage avec des falaises rocheuses et une cascade (1872)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877)

Paysage avec des falaises rocheuses et une cascade (Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall)
1872
Oil on canvas, 61 x 73 cm
RijksmuseumAmsterdam

At the time of the Hague School, the French painter Courbet enjoyed a certain notoriety. He styled himself as a rebel and refused to align himself with any specific style. Instead he began a one-man movement: ‘Realism’. He tried to render the ruggedness of nature by applying the paint to the canvas spontaneously, often with a palette knife. He painted these cliffs in the Jura Mountains in the vicinity of his native Ornans. (RIJKS)