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Gustave Courbet Bonjour Monsieur Courbet 1854
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Gustave Courbet The Calm Sea 1869
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Gustave Courbet Juliette Courbet 1874
Museum of Art, Sao Paulo
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Gustave Courbet The Trout 1873
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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Gustave Courbet The Wave 1870
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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Gustave Courbet Still Life with Apples and Pomegranates National Gallery, London
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Gustave Courbet Woman with a Parrot 1865-66
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Gustave Courbet Low Tide known as Immensity 1865
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
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Gustave Courbet Portrait of Jo 1866
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Gustave Courbet Portrait of the Artist's Father 1844
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Gustave Courbet The Quarry 1857
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Gustave Courbet Zelie Courbet 1846
Museum of Art, Sao Paolo
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Gustave Courbet The Wounded Man 1844
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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Gustave Courbet La Mere Gregoire 1855-59
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Gustave Courbet Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau 1862
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Gustave Courbet The Young Ladies of the Banks of the Seine 1857
Musee du Petit Palais, Paris
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Gustave Courbet A Burial at Ornans 1849-1850(Salon of 1850-1815)
10' 3 1/2 x 21'9''(314 x 663cm)
Gift of Miss Juliette Courber,1881
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Gustave Courbet Hector Berlioz 1850 (Salon of 1850-1851)
2' x 1' 7''(61 x 48 cm)
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Gustave Courbet The Man with the Leather Belt salon of 1846
3' 3 1/4'' x 2' 8 1/4''(100 x 82 cm)
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Gustave Courbet Mme.Proudhon 1865
2' 4 3/4'' x 11 1/4''(73 x 59 cm)
Gift of Mrs.Emmanuel Fautre-Fremiet and Miss Suzanne Henneguy,1958
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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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