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Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet, c. 1860s (portrait photograph by Nadar)
Born
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet
(1819-06-10)10 June 1819
Ornans, Doubs, France
Died
31 December 1877(1877-12-31) (aged 58)
La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Known for
Painting, sculpting
Notable work
The Stone Breakers (1849) A Burial at Ornans (1849–1850) The Painter's Studio (1855) L'Origine du monde (1866)
Movement
Realism
Awards
Gold-Medal winner, 1848 Salon Nominated to receive the French Legion of Honor in 1870 (refused)
Patron(s)
Alfred Bruyas
Signature
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: /ˈkʊərbeɪ/KOOR-bay,[1]US: /kʊərˈbeɪ/koor-BAY,[2]French:[ɡystavkuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877)[3] 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 artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
Courbet's paintings of the late 1840s and early 1850s brought him his first recognition. They challenged convention by depicting unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects. Courbet's subsequent paintings were mostly of a less overtly political character: landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes, and still lifes. Courbet was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his involvement with the Paris Commune and lived in exile in Switzerland from 1873 until his death four years later.
^"Courbet, Gustave". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022.
^"Courbet". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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Jean Désiré GustaveCourbet (UK: /ˈkʊərbeɪ/ KOOR-bay, US: /kʊərˈbeɪ/ koor-BAY, French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter...
"Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet" (French: La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") is an oil-on-canvas painting by GustaveCourbet, made in 1854. It depicts...
1849–50 by GustaveCourbet. It is widely regarded as a major turning point in 19th-century French art. The painting records a funeral in Courbet's birthplace...
Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist GustaveCourbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a lesbian couple, is also...
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American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter GustaveCourbet. In addition to being an artists' model, Hiffernan herself also drew...
financially supported by the artist and art collector Gustave Caillebotte, Bazille and perhaps GustaveCourbet, although creditors still pursued him. He married...
destruction. Historically, vandalism has been justified by painter GustaveCourbet as destruction of monuments symbolizing "war and conquest". Therefore...
Stonebreakers, was an 1849 oil painting on canvas by the French painter GustaveCourbet. Now destroyed, the image remains an often-cited example of the artistic...
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exaggerated the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva. In 1866, GustaveCourbet painted a picture of a nude woman with her legs apart, entitled "The...
Femme à la vague) is an 1868 painting by the French Realist painter GustaveCourbet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The picture is...
imagination". L'Origine du monde ("Origin of the world"), painted by GustaveCourbet in 1866, was an early Realist painting of a vulva that only became...
force and false pride." The idea had originally come from the painter GustaveCourbet, who had written to the Government of National Defence on 4 September...
influence can be seen in the works of Eugène Delacroix, J. M. W. Turner, GustaveCourbet, and Édouard Manet. In June 1816, the French frigate Méduse, captained...
nel 1872. L'uomo Ferito, eseguito nel 1844 da GustaveCourbet. Madame Auguste Cuoq,1852, by GustaveCourbet, currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Whistler became close to GustaveCourbet, the early leader of the French realist school, but when Hiffernan modeled in the nude for Courbet, Whistler became enraged...
soldier in Napoleon's army. In the 1830s he became friends with artist GustaveCourbet and the two were close for the rest of Buchon's life. From 1834 to...
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