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Gustave Courbet Bridge mk242
1837
16.8x26.6cm
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Gustave Courbet Sister mk242
1839
21x26.5cm
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Gustave Courbet Desparing person mk242
1843
60.5x50.5cm
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Gustave Courbet Piye mk242
1843
Oil on canvas
55x46cm
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Gustave Courbet The Girl wearing the headband mk242
1848
Oil on canvas
60x73cm
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Gustave Courbet Ocsi mk242
1850
60.5x48cm
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Portrait of Bodelier mk242
1848-1849
53x61cm
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Gustave Courbet After the supper mk242
1849
195x257cm
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Interment mk242
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Start mk242
1850-1851
Oil on canvas
388x580cm
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Gustave Courbet Smash mk242
1848
129x149cm
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Study of Smash mk242
1849
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Portrait mk242
1849
45x37cm
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Gustave Courbet The Peasant from the market mk242
1850-1855
206x275cm
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Detail of The Peasant from the market mk242
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Gustave Courbet Detail of The Peasant from the market mk242
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Gustave Courbet Gift mk242
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Gustave Courbet Gift mk242
1851
195x261cm
Oil on canvas
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Gustave Courbet Girl mk242
1851
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Gustave Courbet Rassle mk242
1853
252x198cm
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Gustave Courbet
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1819-1877
French
Gustave Courbet Locations
was a French painter whose powerful pictures of peasants and scenes of everyday life established him as the leading figure of the realist movement of the mid-19th century.
Gustave Courbet was born at Ornans on June 10, 1819. He appears to have inherited his vigorous temperament from his father, a landowner and prominent personality in the Franche-Comte region. At the age of 18 Gustave went to the College Royal at Besancon. There he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the traditional classical subjects he was obliged to study, going so far as to lead a revolt among the students. In 1838 he was enrolled as an externe and could simultaneously attend the classes of Charles Flajoulot, director of the ecole des Beaux-Arts. At the college in Besançon, Courbet became fast friends with Max Buchon, whose Essais Poetiques (1839) he illustrated with four lithographs.
In 1840 Courbet went to Paris to study law, but he decided to become a painter and spent much time copying in the Louvre. In 1844 his Self-Portrait with Black Dog was exhibited at the Salon. The following year he submitted five pictures; only one, Le Guitarrero, was accepted. After a complete rejection in 1847, the Liberal Jury of 1848 accepted all 10 of his entries, and the critic Champfleury, who was to become Courbet first staunch apologist, highly praised the Walpurgis Night.
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