Detail View: The AMICA Library: Dent du Midi
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1964.420
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Courbet, Gustave
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1819 - 1877
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Gustave Courbet
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Title:
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Dent du Midi
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1877
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Creation Start Date:
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1877
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Creation End Date:
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1877
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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Unframed: 151.1cm x 208.9cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1964.420
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Credit Line:
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John L. Severance Fund and various donors by exchange
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Rights:
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Context:
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Courbet worked on this landscape while in exile in Switzerland. The view across Lake Geneva towards the Grammant mountains in France seems to echo the artist's longing for his native country. Intended to be shown at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1879, this last major painting by the artist was not finished when he died in 1877. The brownish area at the lower right has scarcely been worked on, but the clouds and snow-covered peaks have been finished in crisp white paint applied with a palette knife.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1964.420.tif
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