A Brook in a Clearing (possibly 'Brook, Valley of Fontcouverte; Study'), probably 1862, Oil on canvas, 20 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (52. 7 x 64. 8 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819?1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Courbet is thought to have painted this lush landscape at Fontcouverte, in the Saintonge region of western France. In the summer of 1862 he sketched there alongside Louis-Augustin Auguin (1824?1904), its probable first owner