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, ...

The self-proclaimed “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” Gustave Courbet created a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1850–51 when he exhibited a group ...

Gustave Courbet, born as Jean Desire Gustave Courbet, was a renowned French artist during the 19th century Realist movement. He was dedicated to presenting his ...

8 mar 2024 · Courbet worked in all genres. A lover of women, he glorified the female nude in paintings of stunning warmth and sensuality. He executed ...

Gustave Courbet was a French artist and founder of the Realist movement in 19th-century France. View Gustave Courbet's 1089 artworks on artnet.

Biography. Gustave Courbet was born in in 1819 in Ornans, a farming town in eastern France, into a closeknit family of the rural middle class. His happy ...

Gustave Courbet was a controversial French painter, who bridged the gap between Romanticism and the Impressionist school of painters.

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), the self-proclaimed "proudest and most arrogant man in France," created a sensation at the Salon of 1850–51 when he exhibited a ...

21 feb 2010 · Gustave Courbet was central to the emergence of Realism in the mid-19th century. Rejecting the classical and theatrical styles of the French ...

Courbet was the main exponent of Realism in 19th-century French painting. His work contrasts with the Classicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the ...