Artist: Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
Nationality: French
Movement: Realism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
French painter, Gustaves Courbet was born in Ornans, his birthplace a favorite subject in his paintings. He studied under several minor artists, and also copied works in the Louvre to establish his own realist style. Courbet won a gold medal at a Salon exhibition in 1949, but his success diminished after his presentation of The Burial at Ornans, a piece which was considered shallow, ugly, and excessively large. Because the French Government became suspicious of him during the 1848 Revolution, Courbet held contempt for his native country for the remainder of his life. He refused to exhibit at the World Fair in 1855, and also refused to accept the Legion of Honor offered to him. Because of these actions, Courbet was exiled and spent the last years of his life in Switzerland.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Gustave Courbet, Self Portrait, 19th century
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Artist: Gustave Courbet Title: Chàteau d"Ornans Date: 1855 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.32-1/8 x
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Artist: Gustave Courbet Title: Deer in the Forest Date: 1868 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Gustave Courbet, Portrait of the Artist"s Sister, 19th century
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Portrait of a Man, probably ca. 1862 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 16 1/4
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Etienne-Gabriel Bocourt, Gustave Courbet, 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Source, 1862 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 47 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Gustave Courbet, Landscape in the Jura, circa 1864
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Etienne-Gabriel Bocourt, Gustave Courbet, 19th century
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Jo, La Belle Irlandaise (Johanna Hiffernan, born 1842-43), 1866 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas;
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The Hidden Brook, ca. 1873-77 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 23 3/8 x 29
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The Sea, 1873 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x
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Alphonse Promayet (1822-1872), 1851 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 42 1/8 x 27 5/8
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Woman with a Parrot, 1866 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 51 x 77 in.
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Nude with Flowering Branch, 1863 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 29 1/2 x 24
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The Fishing Boat, 1865 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 25 1/2 x 32 in.
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River and Rocks, 1873-77 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 19 5/8 x 23 7/8
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The Young Bather, 1866 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 51 1/4 x 38 1/4
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Apples Style of Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, second half 19th century)Oil on canvas; 13 x 17
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A Brook in a Clearing, 1862 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 20 3/4 x
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madame de Brayer, 1858 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 36 x 28 5/8 in.
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The Woman in the Waves, 1868 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 25 3/4 x
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The Deer, ca. 1865 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 29 3/8 x 36 3/8
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The Calm Sea, 1869 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 23 1/2 x 28 3/4
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Standing Female Nude
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Spring Flowers, ca. 1855-60 Copy after Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, second half 19th century)Oil on canvas;
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Portrait of a Woman, Called Héloïse Abélard Style of Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, second half 19th
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Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, l827–1910), 1867 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 69 1/2
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Monsieur Suisse, 1861 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 23 1/4 x 19 3/8 in.
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Marine: The Waterspout, 1870 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 27 1/8 x 39 1/4
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After the Hunt, probably ca. 1859 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 93 x 73
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The Source of the Loue, 1864 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 39 1/4 x
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Woman in a Riding Habit (L"Amazone), 1857 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 45 1/2
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Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare, 1867 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 36 1/2 x
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Head of a Sleeping Bacchante
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A Brook in the Forest Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 19 7/8 x 24
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Young Women from the Village, 1852 Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)Oil on canvas; 76 3/4 x
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Gustave Courbet - Fox in the Snow 1860 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art French
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Gustave Courbet - Still Life 1871 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (22)
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Musee d'Orsay: Courbet and the Commune
Curator : Laurence des Cars, curator, Musée d'Orsay Catalogue : Courbet et la Commune Ed. RMN 120 pages, 30 colour ill., 15 Bb&w ill., paperback Price: ...
Maude Kerns Art Center: Eugene's La Salon des Refuse
As a protest, Refuse artists are calling for a string of Courbet tents that will allow individual artists to show additional works up and down the streets leading to the Art Center. This will move the Celebration to the University neighborhood, a...
J. Paul Getty Center: THE BODY BEAUTIFUL: Artists Draw The Nude (1440-1850)
Mastering the depiction of the nude figure has long been a cornerstone of an artist’s training. Classical form prevailed through the Renaissance. Male nudes were drawn with finely detailed, strongly define...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection
The Cohen collection represents several artists in depth; thus, the exhibition features a varied range of work by such masters as Couture, Gericault, Daubigny, ...
Musee d'Orsay: Still lives by Manet
In spite of their simplicity, his compositions were subtly elaborate, whether they be a lemon, an asparagus, violets, peonies... Some of these ...
Hayward Gallery: Spectacular Bodies: The Art & Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now
Today as forensic and medical sciences advance as never before – with the development of genetic fingerprinting, cryogenics and designer babies - artists continue to find inspiration in the human body. Video installations, photography and sculptur...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
This exhibition brings together twenty works of art by Rossetti and focuses on his masterpiece of the period, The Blue Bower (1865). These works are displayed in context with paintings and drawings by other nine...
Bergen Art Museum: Visions of Nature from Le Petit Palais in Paris
The exhibition will take the visitor on a journey through some of the most outstanding pieces of European landscape painting from the seventeenth through the beginning of the twentieth century. The viewer will have an unique opportunity to take a...
Musee d'Orsay: The Colours of the Sea
The Musée d'Orsay organises an exhibition entitled The Colours of the Sea with Thalassa, le magazine de la mer, a weekly television programme with a maritime theme on
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
As the title indicates, at the core of the exhibition will be the "Spanish" work of Edouard Manet, whose career thoroughly reveals the importance of Spanish painting by the middle of the 19th century. Manet/Velázquez will feature more paintings by...
Galerie Sollertis: Hannah Collins: InnerViews
"This exhibiton will exhibit some of my recent images which are concerned with the temporal nature of our relationship to inner space, both mental and physical and its ability to reflect and question surrounding physical and social structures. All...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photographs: A Decade of Collecting
Collecting great works of art is the Metropolitan Museum's most important mission, noted Director Philippe de Montebello. The enrichment of our photography hol...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The exhibition opens with an early landscape by Claude Monet, Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur, placed within the context of the Realist landscape style ...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Larry Rivers: Art and the Artist
Often identified as a Pop pioneer in the late 1950s, Rivers has become one of most important artists in the figurative tradition. Larry Rivers’ work spans fifty years of restless exploration, consummate skill and deep insight, says Corcor...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios: Bathers: Gary Coyle, A K Dolven, Justine Pearsall, Michael John Whelan
Nonetheless, the trope has become a well established point of reference for contemporary artists many of whom have produced memorable variations on the theme as for instance the staged photographic portraits by Rineke  Dijkstra,  whose adolescent ...
Taft Museum: Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler
This exhibition is sponsored by the Oliver Family Foundation. While Whistler’s paintings were often subjected to harsh criticism, his printed work garnered him a reputation as ...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
National Gallery of Art: Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The museum, which opened in 1876 to house the Prussian king's collection of paintings and sculpture, is currently closed for renovations as part of a larger ...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Picasso érotique
To date, no museum has ever undertaken to present this essential dimension of the artist's creations. These works express a rare audacity and spirit of freedom, but have received very limit...
Museum of Fine Arts, Basel: The House for Cubism: The Raoul La Roche Collection
Raoul La Roche, born in Basel in 1889, went to Paris as a young banker in 1911. There he cultivated close contact with his compatriots, including the architect from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edou...
Frick Collection: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art
While the collection of the Toledo Museum is considered encyclopedic, the works included in the exhibition will emphasize the period from the early Italian Renaissance to late nineteenth-century France. The selection will notably complement the h...

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