Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a highly political French painter in the 19th Century who specialized in Realism.
Gustave Courbet Summary
- Born in 1819 Ornans, Eastern France
- Died in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, in 1977 at age 58
- Realist painter who paved the way for Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Often painted peasants which were not popular at the time
- Was highly political and died while in exile in Switzerland
- In the inner circle of Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Gustave Courbet Famous Paintings
- The Desperate Man (1845)
- Peasant Wearing Madras (1848)
- The Stone Breakers (1849)
- The Wrestlers (1853)
- The Wounded Man (1854)
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon and his children (1853)
- The Wheat Sifters (1854)
- Girl with Seagulls,Trouville (1865)
- The Origin of the World (1866)
- The Woman in the Waves (1868)