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Gustave Courbet
1819-1877
French
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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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The Young Ladies of the Banks of the Seine
1857
Musee du Petit Palais, Paris
Painting ID:: 559
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The_Young_Ladies_of_the_Banks_of_the_Seine
1857
Musee du Petit Palais, Paris
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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
Painting ID:: 11144
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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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Hector Berlioz
1850 (Salon of 1850-1851)
2' x 1' 7''(61 x 48 cm)
Painting ID:: 11145
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Hector_Berlioz
1850 (Salon of 1850-1851)
2' x 1' 7''(61 x 48 cm)
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The Man with the Leather Belt
salon of 1846
3' 3 1/4'' x 2' 8 1/4''(100 x 82 cm)
Painting ID:: 11146
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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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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
Painting ID:: 11147
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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
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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