Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877). <em>Isolated Rock (Le Rocher isolé)</em>, ca. 1862. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1258 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.1258_SL1.jpg)

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877). Isolated Rock (Le Rocher isolé), ca. 1862. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1258 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.1258_SL1.jpg)

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Isolated Rock (Le Rocher isolé)

Gustave Courbet

European Art

On View: Beaux-Arts Court, South, 3rd Floor

By the 1860s, Gustave Courbet was a well-known champion of Realist painting—an approach that found its subject matter in the daily lives and hardships of France’s working class. This seascape highlights another important aspect of Courbet’s Realist practice. Rather than a traditional brush, he used a palette knife to apply the paint in broad, rough patches. This technique evokes the atmosphere of the wind-blown, moving clouds and the coarse texture of the rock, which, in its centrality and isolation, seems to take on a melancholy, human quality.

ARTIST Gustave Courbet, French, 1819-1877

MEDIUM Oil on canvas

Place Made: France

DATES ca. 1862

DIMENSIONS 25 1/2 x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm) frame: 33 1/8 x 39 5/8 x 2 3/4 in. (84.1 x 100.6 x 7 cm) (show scale)

SIGNATURE Signed lower left: "G. Courbet."

COLLECTIONS European Art

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, South, 3rd Floor

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ACCESSION NUMBER 41.1258

CREDIT LINE Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer

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CAPTION Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877). Isolated Rock (Le Rocher isolé), ca. 1862. Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1258 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.1258_SL1.jpg)

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