Gustave Courbet
French painter
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual... Wikipedia
Born: June 10, 1819, Ornans, France
Died: December 31, 1877 (age 58 years), La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Period: Realism
Known for: Painting, sculpting
Parents: Régis Courbet and Sylvie Oudot
Awards: Gold-Medal winner, 1848 Salon; Nominated to receive the French Legion of Honor in 1870 (refused)
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