Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) grew up in a very wealthy landowning family and received art and drawing lessons at an early age. He always remained closely connected to his home in Franche-Comté in eastern France, even though he was often drawn to faraway places, including Belgium and the Netherlands.
He studied law at the request of his parents. However, Gustave Courbet felt more and more the strong urge to become a painter. He left the province and moved to Paris. Fortunately his parents supported him financially at that time.
Gustave Courbet often visited the famous Parisian art museum, the Louvre, to study the works of the famous old masters, to learn from them and to develop himself. He was particularly fascinated by the paintings of Dutch, Spanish and Venetian artists. Gustave Courbet sought the proximity of other artist colleagues and finally had to realize that it was not easy to gain a foothold in Paris as an unknown painter. In Charles Baudelaire, Courbet met an important poet who was also an art critic. In the "Paris Salon", a very important French art exhibition, Courbet was able to exhibit some of his works. A great satisfaction for him and the long awaited confirmation of his artistic efforts was the award of a gold medal for his painting "After the Dinner in Ornans" in 1849. It was only for a few months that Gustave Courbet opened a painting school in order to pass on to his students the artistic experience he had gained. Unfortunately, he got into great difficulties in the eighties, due to his membership of the Paris Commune, the city council. His political commitment ultimately became his undoing when he was blamed for the destruction of the famous Vendôme Column. Denunciations, a prison sentence lasting several months and a heavy fine as compensation for the column forced him to flee to Switzerland. At that time he was already struggling with health problems that robbed him of his strength in the last years of his life. Alcohol and resignation made it impossible for him to create even more outstanding pictures.
Gustave Courbet refused to be called a realistic painter. It was important to him to create art for all classes of people. He also portrayed the simple people, the farmers, stone beaters and street boys, in his paintings. In addition to numerous self-portraits, landscapes, rural and hunting scenes, he created many female nudes, which at first had a provocative effect on the exhibition visitors. With his bold work and masterful command of painting techniques, he paved the way for the following generation of artists, the Impressionists.
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.jpg "Woman in White Stockings, c.1861 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Flagey Oak Tree, 1864 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Beach at Trouville by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Still Life, c.1871-72 by Gustave Courbet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-960851).jpg "The Wave by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Black Rocks at Trouville by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Lake Leman, 1874 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Flowering Branches and Flowers, 1855 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Cliffs at Etretat After the Storm, 1870 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Forest Landscape, 1864 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Artist on the Seashore at Palavas by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Sailing Boat Near the Coast, Stormy Sky by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Storm at Sea, 1865 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Etretat Cliffs After the Storm, 1870 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Bouquet of Asters, 1859 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Path in the Rocks by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Death of the Stag, 1859 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Stream by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Charente at Port-Bertaud by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Autumn Sea by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Low Tide at Trouville by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Castle of Blonay by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Chateau de Chillon by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Lake Geneva and the Dents du Midi by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Funeral at Ornans by Gustave Courbet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1661094).jpg "Portrait of the Artist, \"The Man with the Pipe\" by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "La Bacchante by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Sleeping Nude by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Study for the Woman with the Parrot by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Nude Reclining Woman by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Return of the Deer to the Stream at Plaisir-Fontaine by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Reclining Female Nude by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Nude with Flowering Branch by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Studio of the Painter, a Real Allegory, 1855 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Anika Psalmon, Mrs. Robin, 1862 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Young Women Giving Money to Shepherdess in Hilly Landscape by Felix Bracquemond")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660958).jpg "Deer Reserve at Plaisir Fontaine by Gustave Courbet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1640009).jpg "Young Redhead Sleeping by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Source or Bather at the Source by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Sunset over Lake Leman, 1874 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Study for a Woman Sleeping by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Still Life with Apples, Pear, and Pomegranates by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Nude Woman with a Dog, 1861-1862 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Hunted Roe-Deer on the alert, Spring by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Self Portrait at Sainte-Pelagie, 1871 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Forest Corner by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Les Demoiselles de Village, 1867 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Stream of the Breme Emerging from the Puits Noir, 1865 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Washerwomen at Low Tide, Étretat. 1866 or 1869 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Still Life with Apples and a Pear by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Chateau de Chillon, 1874 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mme de Brayer or the Polish Exile by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Winter Scene, 19th century by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Sleeping Spinner by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Return from the Hunt, 1857 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Paul Ansout, 1844 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Peasant Woman Sleeping by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Study for Venus in Venus and Psyche, 1865 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "A Burial at Ornans (detail) by Gustave Courbet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1661146).jpg "Calm Sea by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Game of Draughts, 1844 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Reclining Nude by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Valley of Les Puits-Noir, 1868 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Cliff at Étretat, after 1872 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Poacher by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Source of the Doubs, 1871 by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait of Gustave Courbet at the Age of Fourteen; Fragment of Bearded Head by Gustave Courbet")
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.jpg "The Cliffs in Étretat, 1869 by Gustave Courbet")
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