At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist ...

Noah Davis was a painter's painter, a deeply thoughtful Black voice heard by other artists until he died at 32. A new L.A. show reveals just how good he was.

An art restorer works on Gustave Courbet’s painting titled A Burial at Ornans at the Orsay Museum. The painting had not undergone any significant restoration for at least half a century.

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." ...

After learning its acquisition “The Rock of Hautepierre,” a Gustave Courbet painting circa 1869, earlier had been owned by a collector killed at Auschwitz, the Art Institute made an ...

The triumph of a trend commonly labelled “Impressionism” was a pivotal moment in the history of art. Precisely what the term ...

Two women were arrested after tagging a Courbet painting with the words "Me Too" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Another work was allegedly stolen.

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 ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the ...

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a renowned French painter who played a pivotal role in the development of the Realist art movement during the 19th century. He was born in Ornans, a small town in ...