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    Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: /ˈkʊərbeɪ/ KOOR-bay, US: /kʊərˈbeɪ/ koor-BAY, French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter...
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  • Look up Courbet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French painter. Courbet may also refer to: Courbet (surname), including...
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    Le Désespéré (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    oil-on-canvas self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, produced from 1843 to 1845, during his stay in Paris. It depicts Courbet as a young man staring in front...
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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...
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    "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet" (French: La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") is an oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, made in 1854. It depicts...
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    The Bathers is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1853, where it caused a major scandal...
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    A Burial at Ornans (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    1849–50 by Gustave Courbet. It is widely regarded as a major turning point in 19th-century French art. The painting records a funeral in Courbet's birthplace...
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    Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a lesbian couple, is also...
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    The Wrestlers is a large 1853 painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. It shows two men engaged in 'French...
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    the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1848. With artists like Gustave Courbet capitalizing on the mundane, ugly or sordid, realism was motivated...
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    American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet. In addition to being an artists' model, Hiffernan herself also drew...
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    Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849 Gustave Courbet, After Dinner at Ornans, 1849 Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850 Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil...
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    Auguste Cot (1837–1883) Charles Cottet (1863–1925) Amédée Courbet (1827–1885) Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) Jean Cousin the Elder (1500–c. 1593) Jean Cousin...
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    destruction. Historically, vandalism has been justified by painter Gustave Courbet as destruction of monuments symbolizing "war and conquest". Therefore...
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    The Painter's Studio (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    is an 1855 oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Courbet. It is located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. Courbet painted The Painter's Studio in Ornans...
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  • nel 1872. L'uomo Ferito, eseguito nel 1844 da Gustave Courbet. Madame Auguste Cuoq,1852, by Gustave Courbet, currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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    working class. In common with his precursors Jean-François Millet and Gustave Courbet, as well his contemporary Degas, Caillebotte aimed to paint reality...
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    figures. This change in technique may have to do with the influence of Gustave Courbet. His favorite subjects continued to be Italian landscapes and peasant...
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    financially supported by the artist and art collector Gustave Caillebotte, Bazille and perhaps Gustave Courbet, although creditors still pursued him. He married...
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    force 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...
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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...
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    imagination". L'Origine du monde (Origin of the World), painted by Gustave Courbet in 1866, was an early Realist painting of a vulva that only became...
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    Gustave Courbet (see below) was perhaps the most creative self-portraitist of the 19th century, and The Artist's studio and Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet...
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    The Gust of Wind is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Gustave Courbet circa 1865. It is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Gust of Wind has been...
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    exaggerated the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva. In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted a picture of a nude woman with her legs apart, entitled "The...
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    The Calm Sea (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    The Calm Sea is an 1869 painting by Gustave Courbet. Done in oil on canvas, the seascape depicts a beach on the Normandy coast stretched out before the...
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    British artists William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. However, Gustave Courbet, having had several of his paintings rejected, exhibited in a temporary...
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    Self-Portrait with a Black Dog (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    Artist or Courbet with a Black Dog (French: Courbet au chien noir) is an 1842 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet, retouched...
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    The Stone Breakers (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    Stonebreakers, was an 1849 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet. Now destroyed, the image remains an often-cited example of the artistic...
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    known 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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