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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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Painting ID:: 73013
Le Grand Pont
"Le Grand Pont," oil on canvas, by the French artist Gustave Courbet. 46 in. x 59 in. x 5 1/2 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Schaefer. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1864(1864)
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Painting ID:: 73022
Isolated Rock
Date ca. 1862(1862)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 64.8 X 81.3 cm (25.51 X 32.01 in)
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Painting ID:: 73331
The hammock
1844
Oil on canvas
70,5 X 97 cm
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Painting ID:: 73637
Wounded Man
81,5 x 97,5 cm, Paris, MusXe d'Orsay
Date 1844-1854
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Painting ID:: 73996
Edge of the Pool
Date ca. 1867(1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 80.6 X 100 cm (31.73 X 39.37 in)
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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: | Dosso Dossi | GOES, Hugo van der | Amy Philip | Blythe David Gilmour | Markis Marie Joseph La Fayette |
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