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.

Photo: AFP Visitors watch through glass panes as art restorers work on Gustave Courbet’s painting A Burial at Ornans at the Orsay Museum. Photo: AFP The restoration is expected to take about a year.

Video. Musée d'Orsay is restoring Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans live. Art lovers can watch the process, led by Cinzia Pasquali, until mid-2026.

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.

Gustave Courbet’s immense painting A Burial at Ornans (1849-50), measuring more than six metres long, is undergoing an ambitious treatment that includes investigating folds of canvas currently ...

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

The artist is seen posing underneath the Courbet painting at the Musée D’Orsay, while exposing her genitals. Following the incidents, the activists were dragged away by security guards while ...

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 ...