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Landscape with Rocky Cliffs and a Waterfall
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 spe-cific 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 vic…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/25H112
- http://iconclass.org/25H216
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/25H112
- http://iconclass.org/25H216
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Gift of M.C., Baroness van Lynden-van Pallandt, The Hague
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1872
- 1872
Place-Time
- third quarter 19th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.7535
- SK-A-1864
Extent
- height 61 cm
- width 73 cm
- height 78.5 cm
- width 91.5 cm
- thickness 8.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1872
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:13:59.442Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:27.264Z