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Follow the pale trunks upward into the reddish canopy, then look for the small strip of distant sky beyond the trees.
Warm foliage fills most of this woodland view, while pale tree trunks create a series of upright accents. Courbet leaves relatively little sky visible. The painting’s depth comes from overlapping trees and the slope of the ground, inviting us to look through the woods rather than over them.
Oil on canvas · 49.5 × 59.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Realism
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- Museum title
- Wooded Landscape
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
- Date
- 1860–65
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 59.4 cm (19 1/2 × 23 3/8 in.); Framed: 63.2 × 73.1 × 7.7 cm (24 7/8 × 28 3/4 × 3 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Siegfried Schmidt
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.