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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The artist’s project, “A Burial in Shanghai,” was developed as a response to the Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), yet the subject and sentiment is timeless and embodies the artist ...