Artist at His Easel
∞ Gustave Courbet 1847 Charcoal Fogg Art Museum Cambridge
The Stone Breakers
∞ Gustave Courbet 1849
Burial at Ornans
∞ Gustave Courbet 1849
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet
∞ Gustave Courbet 1854
Fox in the snow
∞ Gustave Courbet 1860
Trout
∞ Gustave Courbet 1872
The Studio of the Painter
∞ Gustave Courbet 1855 Oil on Canvas Musée d'Orsay Paris
The Quarry (La Curée)
∞ Gustave Courbet 1856 Oil on Canvas Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The German Huntsman
∞ Gustave Courbet 1859 Oil on Canvas Lons-le-Saunier Musée des Beaux-Arts
Woman with a Parrot
∞ Gustave Courbet 1866 Oil on Canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
The Wrestlers
∞ Gustave Courbet 1853 Oil on Canvas Budapest Szépmûvészeti Múzeum
Self-Portrait with Black Dog
∞ Gustave Courbet Oil on Canvas Musée du Petit Palais Paris
Panoramic View of the Alps
∞ Gustave Courbet 1877 Cleveland Museum of ArtGustave Courbet
“In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free even of governments. The people have my sympathies, I must address myself to them directly.” – Gustave Courbet
“In a sense, Courbet is a promiscuous artist: he likes to imagine himself in the landscape of childhood, or in the hostile world of winter, or at the seashore. And this promiscuity jibes with the largeness of the personality that we know from the history books – of the man who got involved and messed up in political developments around the Commune, and who made dramatic gestures, as when, in anger over the rejection of some paintings from the Universal Exposition of 1855, he opened his own pavilion. But what the public histories don’t really tell us is the extent to which the man could be authentic in different situations. That’s what the paintings tell us. The bravado of the paint handling resolves into a perfect transparency of expression…”
Jed Perl, "Gallery Going"
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