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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.
Gustave Courbet was born in in 1819 in Ornans, a farming town in eastern France, into a closeknit family of the rural middle class. His happy childhood, spent in the woods and fields around Ornans, gave him a taste for the hunt and sport, a dislike for school, and a lifelong love of his native region. While at a boarding school in nearly ...
Gustave Courbet's democratic eye revolutionized Western Art. His new form of Realism paved the way for other Modern movements, such as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Manet, Monet, Renoir, and others had direct contact with Courbet and were profoundly affected by the man and his paintings.
Mar 14, 2022 · Gustave Courbet is recognized as a major player in the emergence of Realism in the mid-19 century. Gustave Courbet’s paintings, which disregarded the Academy’s French artists’ classical and dramatic traditions, stressed the physical reality of what he saw – even if that truth was plain and faulty.
1819 - 1877. Image: Etienne Carjat, ‘Portrait of Courbet’, 1861, Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN, Paris (musée d'Orsay) Courbet was the main exponent of Realism in 19th-century French painting. His work contrasts with the Classicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the Romanticism of Eugène Delacroix.
Exhibition Overview. This is the first full retrospective of the French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) in thirty years, presenting some 130 works by this pioneering figure in the history of modernism, from his seminal manifesto paintings of the 1850s to the views of his native Ornans and portraits of his friends and family.
Gustave Courbet arrived in Paris in 1839 to study law, in line with his father’s wishes. However, he quickly rejected this future career path. Like many budding artists, he regularly visited the Louvre to make copies of great works such as for example The Vision of Saint Jerome by Guercino (Ornans, musée Courbet).
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