Seven years after its unlikely discovery, the painting is the centerpiece of the exhibition “At the Source: a Courbet Landscape Rediscovered” at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery. A champion of the working ...

Courbet's belief in a meritocracy of equals, with the artist in fact somewhat superior to the good bourgeois gentilhomme, underlies another painting included at the Met, The Meeting, or Bonjour ...

In The Meeting, Gustave Courbet depicts his chance encounter with a wealthy patron, Alfred Bruyas, on a dirt road in the open countryside. Also called Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, the scene is a ...

A panel has recommended that a British museum return a landscape painting by Gustave Courbet to heirs of a Jewish engineer who joined the French Resistance. By Julia Jacobs Shortly before the Nazi ...

San Francisco — In 1853 Alfred Bruyas, the son of a banker who used the family fortune to collect art, visited the annual salon in Paris, where the talk of the show was a large painting by ...

Gustave Courbet was a French 19th Century painter who was born in 1819. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge. Numerous key galleries and museums ...

Two women tagged the phrase “MeToo” on the protective glass covering Gustave Courbet’s painting “The Origin of the World” (1866), which features a close-up view of a vulva, in a stunt ...

Courbet began painting The Desperate Man at age 24, after a string of rejections from the Paris Salon left him questioning Romanticism. The work participates in the “expressive head” tradition ...

In 2014, Musée d’Orsay took the same approach for Courbet's "The Painter’s Studio." Restoratioin of Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans (1849–50) at Musée d'Orsay.