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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:: 11153
A Thicket of Deer at the Stream of Plaisir-Fontaine
1866(Salon of 1866)
5' 8 1/2'' x 6' 10 1/4''(174 x 209 cm)
Gift of an amateurs' reunion,1890.
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Painting ID:: 11154
Apple Tree Branch in Flower
1' 1'' x 1' 4'' (32 x 40.5cm)
Gift of Max and Rosy Kaganovich,1973
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Painting ID:: 11155
The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm
1869,signed"...70"
(Salon of 1870)
4' 4 1/4'' x 5' 3 3/4''(133 x 162 cm)MNR 561
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Painting ID:: 11156
The Stormy Sea(or The Wave
1869,signed"...70"(Salon of 1870)
3' 10'' x 5' 3 1/2''(117 x 160.5cm)
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Painting ID:: 11157
Teh Painter's Studio; A Real Allegory
A Allegory,1855
11' 10 1/4 x 19' 7 1/2''(361 x 598 cm)
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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: | Edward Bower | Edouard Hamman | John Gould | Pierre de Valenciennes | Camile Pissarro |
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