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Gustave Courbet

Portrait of Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet was a French artist born on June 10, 1819. Courbet contributed to the Realist movement and died on December 31, 1877. Get notified when Gustave Courbet's biography is complete:

Self Portrait with Black Dog

1842

The Man Made Mad with Fear

1843

Portrait of Juliette Courbet

1844

Self Portrait with Black Dog

1842-1844

The Desperate Man

1844-1845

Self-portrait (Man with Leather Belt)

1845-1846

Self Portrait with Pipe

1848-1849

The Stone Breakers

1849

The Burial at Ornans

1849-1850

The Wrestlers

1853

Bonjour Monsieur Courbet

1854

The Wounded Man

1854

The Painter's Studio

1855

After the Hunt

1859

Man with a Pipe

1860

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things

Realist Manifesto — An Open Letter

1861

The Clairvoyant

1865

Jo - The Beautiful Irish Girl

1865-1866

The Wave

1869-1867

I quite like the subject of violent exercise. It makes the most surprising painting you can imagine.

Letters by Gustave Courbet

1870

The Trout

1871

Beach in Normandy

1875
Portrait of José Tapiro y Baro

José Tapiro y Baro

Painting in the shadow of your best friend

1836-1913
Portrait of Anna Ancher

Anna Ancher

Quiet portraits of daily life

1859-1935
Portrait of Helene Schjerfbeck

Helene Schjerfbeck

1862-1946
18011900
Julia Margaret Cameron
A military painter sponsored by the state—smells like propaganda
Ivan Aivazovsky Gustave Courbet
Photographer, novelist... balloonist?
Félix Nadar
Robert S. Duncanson

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