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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Place Vendôme (section In popular culture)
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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Chillon Castle (section In art and popular culture)
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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Second Empire style (section Popular music)
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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Culture of France (redirect from French popular culture)
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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Sarah Bernhardt (section In popular culture)
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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