Gustave Courbet

1819–1877 · France · Realism

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) 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. Wikipedia

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Ordinary rural people and landscapes painted heavily, often with a palette knife, earthy colours and no idealisation.

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“The Sleepers”, 1866 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“A Burial at Ornans”, 1849–1850 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Painter's Studio”, 1855 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Stone Breakers”, 1850 — Dresden State Art Collections
“Woman with a Parrot”, 1866 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Meeting, or Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!”, 1854 — Musée Fabre
“The Woman in the Waves”, 1868 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Le Désespéré”, 1840
“The Bathers”, 1853 — Musée Fabre
“Young Ladies Beside the Seine”, 1857 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“The Wheat Sifters”, 1854 — Nantes Museum of Arts
“Femme nue couchée”, 1862
“The Bacchante”, 1844 — Collection Rau for UNICEF
“Self-Portrait with a Black Dog”, 1842 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“Young Ladies of the Village”, 1851 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl”, 1865
“The Wounded Man”, 1854 — Musée d'Orsay
“After Dinner at Ornans”, 1849 — Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
“Femme couchée”, 1865 — Hermitage Museum
“Killing a Deer”, 1867 — Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
“The Gust of Wind”, 1865 — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“The Oak at Flagey”, 1864 — musée Courbet
“Landscape with a Dead Horse”, 1858 — Hermitage Museum
“Le ruisseau noir”, 1865 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Source”, 1862 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Source”, 1868 — Musée d'Orsay
“Femme nue au chien”, 1861 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Wrestlers”, 1853 — Hungarian National Gallery
“Woman with White Stockings (La Femme aux bas blancs)”, 1864 — Barnes Foundation
“Portrait of Baudelaire”, 1848 — Musée Fabre
“The Beach at Palavas”, 1854 — Musée Fabre
“The Wave”, 1870 — National Museum of Western Art
“The Calm Sea”, 1869 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Proudhon and His Children”, 1865 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris
“The Hunt Breakfast”, 1858 — Wallraf-Richartz Museum
“The Sleeping Spinner”, 1853 — Musée Fabre
“The Fishing Boat”, 1865 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Quarry”, 1857 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Happy Lovers”, 1844 — Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
“The Cliff at Étretat after a Storm”, 1870 — Musée d'Orsay

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