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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
The Valley of the Loue in Stormy Weather, 1849
Oil on canvas; 21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65 cm)
Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts
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This landscape depicts, from a lower vantage point, the same panoramic view captured in the Château d'Ornans, a work of about the same date on view in this gallery. While borrowing from the conventions of classical landscape painting, notably in his use of the group of trees on the right as a framing device, Courbet faithfully renders the landscape of his native Franche-Comté, embodied in the limestone cliffs, whose brilliant whiteness Courbet emphasizes. The looming storm clouds and the dramatic contrasts of light and dark lend the work a Romantic quality.
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