Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval. Gustave ...

"Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man)" by Gustave Courbet returns to Paris this month. Let's unpack the mysteries surrounding ...

Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...

The Musée du Vieux Granville in Normandy, France has authenticated a work by Realist master Gustave Courbet that has been languishing in its archives since 1945. Vue du Lac Léman (1876), as well as ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

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One of the greatest mysteries in art history appears to have been solved. The identity of the model who posed for the most scandalous painting of the 19th century, Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du ...

Qatar has officially revealed itself as the owner of the famed self-portrait by French realist Gustave Courbet, known as Le ...

On the occasion of the official tribute paid to Sylvain Amic, President of the Mus es d Orsay et de l Orangerie, the Mus e d ...