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Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 to Régis and Sylvie Oudot Courbet in Ornans (department of Doubs). Anti-monarchical feelings prevailed in the household. (His maternal grandfather fought in the French Revolution.) Courbet's sisters, Zoé, Zélie, and Juliette were his first models for drawing and painting.
Gustave Courbet (born June 10, 1819, Ornans, France—died December 31, 1877, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) was a French painter and leader of the Realist movement. Courbet rebelled against the Romantic painting of his day, turning to everyday events for his subject matter.
Gustave Courbet was a controversial French painter, who bridged the gap between Romanticism and the Impressionist school of painters.
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.
The self-proclaimed “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” Gustave Courbet created a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1850–51 when he exhibited a group of paintings set in his native Ornans, a village in the Franche-Comté in eastern France.
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.
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.
Gustave Courbet was born in Ornans into a comfortably-off family to whom he remained close throughout his life, as shown by the many portraits of family members, sometimes even featuring them within some of his major works.
Gustave Courbet. Jun 10, 1819 - Dec 31, 1877. Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only...
Gustave Courbet. Ornans, 1819-La Tour-de-Peilz, 1877. Print page. Born in the Franche Compté to a family of landowners, Gustave Courbet was brought up on the principles of Voltaire and the Republic. In 1839 he moved to Paris to read law, but soon changed his mind and pursued a career in art instead.
