Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn Gustave Courbet’s “The Source of the Lison” was lost in a forgotten box for over a century. Now it’s the centerpiece of an ...

While artists go in and out of fashion for various reasons, the renewed interest of late in French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) corresponds to a turn in the contemporary art scene toward ...

With these devices the artist re-creates visually the claustrophobia, oppressiveness and isolation of a remote French village. Courbet, however, loved this tiny corner of France.

Courbet portrayed himself not as a figure painter, though a nude model stands by his shoulder — but rather, at work on a large landscape.

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.

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 ...

As part of a performance by Deborah de Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Gustave Courbet's "The Origin of the World" (1866) was tagged with the phrase "MeToo." (all photos courtesy Deborah de ...

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Art History Gustave Courbet’s Brooding Masterpiece Undergoes a Rare Public Restoration In 2014, Musée d’Orsay took the same approach for Courbet's "The Painter’s Studio." ...