The stream depicted is the Loue, a capricious creek flowing through the village of Ornans, where Courbet was born.
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It was part of the Emperor's personal property, and was allotted to the Louvre by the Tribunal de la Seine, along with other paintings, on 12 February 1879.
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Nochlin, Linda, Realism: Style and Civilization (New York: Penguin, 1972)
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