Lakeside Dwelling

Lakeside Dwelling (Habitation lacustre) is a 1878 oil painting by Emmanuel Benner (1836-1896). It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse. Its inventory number is D.62.1.23.^[2][3]

Lakeside Dwelling
French: Habitation lacustre
Artist	Emmanuel Benner
Year	1878
Medium	oil paint on canvas
Movement	Academic art History painting
Subject	A scene from Neolithic Europe.
Dimensions	158 cm × 117 cm (62 in × 46 in)[1]
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse
Accession	1883

The painting was displayed at the 1878 Paris Salon under the more specific title Une famille lacustre, au lac de Bienne (Suisse),^[4] i. e. A Family of Lake Dwellers, by Lake Biel (Switzerland). It is one of several Prehistory-themed paintings made by Benner. Discoveries made around Lake Zurich in 1854 had popularized the (now discredited) scientific image of ancient populations living in stilt houses built on Swiss lakes. In reality, these populations mostly lived on the shores.^[1]

See also

• A Family in the Stone Age
• Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich