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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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Painting ID:: 11148
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
1865
2' 4 1/4''x 1' 9 3/4'' (72 x 55cm)
Gift of Mrs.Emmanuel Faure-Fremiet and Miss Suzanne Henneguy,1958
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Painting ID:: 11149
Nude with Dog
1861-1862(later dated 1868)
2' 1 1/2'' x 2' 8'' (65 x 81cm)
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Painting ID:: 11150
The Shaded Stream
the Stream of the Puits Noir
1865(Salon of 1865)
3' 1'' x 4' 5 1/4 ''(94 x 135 cm)
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Painting ID:: 11151
The Source
1868
4' 2 1/2'' x 3' 2 1/4''(128 x 97 cm)
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Painting ID:: 11152
Spring Rutting;Battle of Stags
1861 (Salon of 1861)
11' 7 3/4'' x 16' 7 1/2''(355 x 507cm)
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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.
. Related Artists to Gustave Courbet: | Thomas Kelah Wharton | Christian Seybold | Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann | Charles Furneaux | Max Buri |
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