Landscape with Large Trees — About This Work
Gustave Courbet, c. 1870
About the Work
Large trees cluster across a sloping bank while a dark river winds through the foreground. Smudged charcoal creates a heavy sky and deep shadow, with sharper lines returning to define foliage and water.
The Cleveland Museum of Art describes the drawing as a constructed landscape rather than a record of one specific place. Courbet drew on scenery he knew in Switzerland and the Franche-Comté as well as older landscape traditions, laying in a hazy midtone before adding darker detail.
The sheet measures 52.4 × 38.1 cm. Presented at Original Scale in the 45 × 60 cm frame, the broad horizontal format is retained without cropping or enlargement.
The Work
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Title: Landscape with Large Trees
Date: c. 1870
Medium: Chalk drawing
Recorded dimensions: 52.4 × 38.1 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1976.18
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 45 × 60 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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