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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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A Funeral in Ornans
MK169
1849-50
oil Paint on cloth
314x663cm
Painting ID:: 42765
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A_Funeral_in_Ornans
MK169
1849-50
oil Paint on cloth
314x663cm
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Beach Scene
mk170
1874
Oil on canvas
37.5x54.5cm
Painting ID:: 43324
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Beach_Scene
mk170
1874
Oil on canvas
37.5x54.5cm
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Still life with Apples and a Pomegranate
mk170
1871-1872
Oil on canvas
44.5x61cm
Painting ID:: 43325
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Still_life_with_Apples_and_a_Pomegranate
mk170
1871-1872
Oil on canvas
44.5x61cm
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Young Ladies on the Bank of the Seine
mk170
circa 1857
Oil on canvas
96.5x130cm
Painting ID:: 43326
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Young_Ladies_on_the_Bank_of_the_Seine
mk170
circa 1857
Oil on canvas
96.5x130cm
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Portrait de JO.La Belle Irlandaise
mk183
Signed
Oil on cnavas
54x64cm
Painting ID:: 45001
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Portrait_de_JO.La_Belle_Irlandaise
mk183
Signed
Oil on cnavas
54x64cm
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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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