The Trout
Gustave Courbet, 1872
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Kunsthaus Zürich
- Reference
- XDV-2009
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Courbet produced at least two nearly mirror-image versions of this scene of the dying trout (1872 and 1873), as if obsessively repeating an image of himself trapped following his time in prison.
