Fox in the Snow
| Fox in the Snow | |
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| Artist | Gustave Courbet |
| Year | 1860 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, animal painting |
| Dimensions | 87.5 cm × 127.9 cm (34.4 in × 50.4 in) |
| Location | Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
Fox in the Snow (French: Le Renard dans la neige) is an 1860 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet.[1] It depicts a fox in winter in the process of savaging a rodent it has caught. This offers a striking contrast of colours between the fox's coat, red blood and white snow. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1861 in Paris.[2] Today it is in the Dallas Museum of Art] in Texas.[3] The painting was a likely influence on The Dead Fox, a painting by future impressionist Edgar Degas .[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Fried p.327
- ^ https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/objects/111430
- ^ https://dma.org/art/collection/object/5290016
- ^ Tinterow & Loyrette p.368
Bibliography
[edit]- Fried, Michael. Courbet's Realism. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
- Tinterow, Gary & Loyrette, Henri. Origins of Impressionism. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.
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