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Gustave Courbet

A Brook in a Clearing (possibly "Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study")

probably 1862
Oil on canvas
52.7 × 64.8 cm (20.7 × 25.5 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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