Seguace di Gustave Courbet (XIX) - Torrente con viandanti

Interesting work by a 19th century painter, follower of Gustave Courbet, painted in oil on canvas, in good condition.
The painting measures 96x62 cm.
The frame is contemporary with the work.
The work requires a light cleaning of the pictorial layer.
Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 – La Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) is considered the father of Realism, an artistic movement to which he devoted his work between 1848 and 1855. The second half of the nineteenth century was a very important historical moment for Europe: starting with the revolutionary uprisings of 1848, a period of strong political tensions began. Against this backdrop, the Realist movement consolidated around 1850 and prevailed until 1870-80: it found its most coherent expression in France. It was a new artistic movement that responded to a more conservative, academic classicism.


Realism aimed to tell the truth of its time, offering a faithful and objective, deliberately unpompous, representation of everyday life. Courbet was the most important exponent of this movement: drawing his subjects from everyday reality, he depicted contemporary life with great awareness. His was an active painting style, committed to objectively depicting everyday life and denouncing the injustices of simple city life. In his later career, he also devoted himself to landscape painting, almost anticipating the Impressionist movements that would emerge a few years later, in the 1870s.
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