The Source of the Loue, 1864, Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 56 in. (99.7 x 142.2 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Courbet often painted the rocky grotto at the source of the Loue, the river that flows through his native village, Ornans, in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. This view is probably one of four he mentioned to the dealer Luquet in the spring of 1864, when he wrote: 'I've been to the source of the Loue these last days and made four landscapes about 1 meter 40
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Source, Loue, 1864, Oil, canvas, 39 1/4 x 56, 99.7 142.2 cm, Paintings, Gustave Courbet, French, Ornans, 1819–1877, La Tour-de-Peilz, Courbet, painted, rocky grotto, source, river, flows, native village, Franche-Comté region, eastern France, view, four, mentioned, dealer Luquet, spring, wrote, I've, last days, four landscapes, 1 meter 40
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