This paisible picture says it all - the water is calm and forms a 'mirror' of the landscape seen from the roadside. My friend took me here for a quick discovery of the region on the way to Ornans and in between the rush, we managed to steal a moment for this specific view famous in the region and the rock walls around the river bend imortalized in Gustave Courbet's paintings...
the tiny village of Cléron with the Loue river...
A freehand translation of the text:
G. Courbet spent the autumn of 1865 between his friend's Max Buchon at Salins and his family home in Ornans. The philosopher Proudhon, his political guide, passed away. Nature became difficult for him to endure and so he chose to paint the landscape near Maisieres in which the pathway lead to infiniti in the horizon, till the rocky walls of the clifts. Whatever! Tomorrow, he'll be in Paris and soon at Trouville where he'll forget: "I am at Trouville in a ravishing position. The Casino offered me a superb appartment by the sea..." (16 September 1865)
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