Gustave Courbet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Courbet (disambiguation).
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet by Carjat c1860s.jpg
Gustave Courbet c. 1860s (portrait by Étienne Carjat)
Birth name Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet
Born 10 June 1819
Ornans, Doubs, France
Died 31 December 1877 (aged 58)
La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Nationality French
Field Painting, Sculpting
Training Antoine-Jean Gros
Movement Realism
Works A Burial At Ornans (1849-1850)
L'Origine du monde (1866)
Patrons Alfred Bruyas
Awards Gold-Medal winner - 1848 Salon; Nominated to receive the French Legion of Honor in 1870, - Refused.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix) with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.' [1]