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Gustave Courbet
The Gust of Wind
c. 1865
Oil on canvas
2002.216
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This monumentally scaled painting depicts a storm rapidly advancing over a stretch of land in the Fontainebleau Forest. The Fontainebleau Forest was the home of the Barbizon School of painters, whose naturalist approach presaged Impessionism. Courbet rendered The Gust of Wind with extraordinary energy in a variety of strokes and scumbles. Mountains at the horizon are delicately painted, while the rocky landscape, the pool, and the craggy, wind-bent trees in the middle distance and foreground are described with the rough marks of brush and palette knife. The painting is Courbet´s largest canvas devoted solely to landscape.
Museum purchase with funds provided by Caroline Wiess Law
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Related Exhibitions & Collections:
Courbet and the Modern Landscape
In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
European Painting and Sculpture
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