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View of Ornans, probably mid-1850s. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92.1 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- View of Ornans
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
- Date
- probably mid-1850s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92.1 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Alice Tully, 1993
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1819–1877
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.