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    perennially popular with collectors, even as when it was challenged by artists seeking a more realistic approach, such as Gustave Courbet. He was also...
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    L'Origine du monde (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    World") is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet in 1866. It is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked woman...
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    Courbet went into self-imposed exile in Switzerland, the French government seized and sold the artist's paintings for a minor amount, and Courbet died...
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    Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet (French pronunciation: [anatɔl amede pʁɔspɛʁ kuʁbɛ]; 26 June 1827 – 11 June 1885) was a French admiral who won a series...
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    Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. He was a friend of the painter Gustave Courbet; (like Courbet) he supported the Paris Commune in 1871, and published political...
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    as Charity, View on the Château de Versailles and the Orangerie Gustave Courbet – 48 paintings including The Artist's Studio, A Burial at Ornans, Young...
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    The Birth of Venus (Cabanel) (category Paintings by Alexandre Cabanel)
    Venus (French: Naissance de Venus) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1863, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris...
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    can be seen in the works of Eugène Delacroix, J. M. W. Turner, Gustave Courbet, and Édouard Manet. In June 1816, the French frigate Méduse, captained...
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    Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron. By 1939, helped by its proximity to the popular tourist destination...
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  • of Jewish antiques dealer Alexandre Rosenberg, Paul and his elder brother Léonce joined their father's business. Alexandre had established his business...
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    acceptance, and to be given a good place in the galleries. In 1851, Gustave Courbet managed to get one painting into the Salon, Enterrement à Ornans, and in...
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    building. In 1870, Napoleon III proposed giving the Legion of Honour to Courbet, but Courbet disdainfully rejected the offer. The term Impressionist was not invented...
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    Alexandre Mercereau (22 October 1888 – 1945) was a French symbolist poet and critic associated with Unanimism and the Abbaye de Créteil. He founded the...
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    Jean-Jacques Boissard, neo-Latin poet Paul de Casteljau, mathematician Gustave Courbet, painter Frank Darabont, filmmaker Charles Fourier, philosopher Salah Gaham...
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    writers, poets, painters, and sculptors there, including Baudelaire, Corot, Courbet, Delacroix among others, and began to paint in earnest. He spent his summers...
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  • and popular cafés. See also the writers Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. Ignace François Bonhomme (1809–1881) Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)...
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    school of Realist painters led by Gustave Courbet. One of the most successful Salon artists was Alexandre Cabanel, who produced a famous full-length...
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    the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black...
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    dynamic atmospheric conditions over time on a single haystack motif. Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) had been painting effets de neige, "snow effects", from as...
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    world. By the 1850s, some artists, notably the Realist painter Gustave Courbet, had gained public attention and critical censure by depicting contemporary...
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    the battle a French landing force under the command of Admiral Amédée Courbet stormed the coastal forts that guarded the river approaches to the Vietnamese...
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    movement was led by France, with Balzac and Flaubert in literature and Courbet in painting; Stendhal and Goya were important precursors of Realism in...
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    and false pride." The idea had originally come from the painter Gustave Courbet, who had written to the Government of National Defence on 4 September calling...
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    criticized for its use of idealism, by Realist artists such as Gustave Courbet, as being based on idealistic clichés and representing mythical and legendary...
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    Symbolism (Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine), and of Impressionism in art (Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir). By 1901, the population of Paris had grown to about...
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    describing nature (Barbizon school). The realistic movement was led by Courbet and Honoré Daumier. Impressionism was developed in France by artists such...
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    doi:10.32725/oph.2018.021. Clark, Timothy James; Courbet, Gustave (1999). Image of the people: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 revolution. Berkeley: University...
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    Cultural depictions of dogs (category Dogs in popular culture)
    Self-portrait, by Louis Meijer. The painter's dog sits on his lap. Gustave Courbet, Self-portrait with black spaniel dog. Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, of Hales...
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    Seamstress (film) List of works by Alexandre Falguière (statue of Balzac) Rzewuski family (Mme. Eve de Balzac) Henry James Popular novel in France French: Légion...
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    in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas...
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