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.

[2][3] 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.