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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 Winnowers
mk87
1853
Oil on canvas
131x167cm
Nantes,Musee des Beaux-Arts
Painting ID:: 33888
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The_Winnowers
mk87
1853
Oil on canvas
131x167cm
Nantes,Musee des Beaux-Arts
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Young Women on the Banks of the Seine
mk87
1857
Oil on canvas
173.5x206.5cm
Paris,Musee du Petit Palais
Painting ID:: 33889
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Young_Women_on_the_Banks_of_the_Seine
mk87
1857
Oil on canvas
173.5x206.5cm
Paris,Musee du Petit Palais
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The Painter's Studio A Real Allegory
mk87
1855
Oil on canvas
359x598cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
Painting ID:: 33890
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The_Painter's_Studio_A_Real_Allegory
mk87
1855
Oil on canvas
359x598cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Das Atelier.Ausschnitt:Der Maler
mk92
1855
Paris,
Louvre
Painting ID:: 34343
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Das_Atelier.Ausschnitt:Der_Maler
mk92
1855
Paris,
Louvre
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Die Kornsieberinnen
mk92
1855
131x167cm
Nantes,
Musee des Beaux-Arts
Painting ID:: 34344
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Die_Kornsieberinnen
mk92
1855
131x167cm
Nantes,
Musee des Beaux-Arts
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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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