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Gustave Courbet · 1874
Gustave Courbet: 1819–1877
Other names (6)
Courbet, G. Courbet, Gi︠u︡stav Kurbe, Gustav Courbet, Gust. Courbet, Jean Desire Gustave Courbet
Biography
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: KOOR-bay; US: koor-BAY; French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
Courbet's paintings of the late 1840s and early 1850s brought him his first recognition. They challenged convention by depicting unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects. Courbet's subsequent paintings were mostly of a less overtly political character: landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes, and still lifes. Courbet was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his involvement with the Paris Commune and lived in exile in Switzerland from 1873 until his death four years later.
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- Paul Cézannedocumented
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Cézanne's early painting drew on Courbet, including thick palette-knife handling. The cited museum text was read and supports this relationship.
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Gustave Courbet. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- musée Gustave Courbet — Ornans49 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art29 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay21 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris13 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art13 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago12 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon11 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims — Reims6 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille6 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts5 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art4 recorded works
- Nationalmuseum4 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art4 recorded works
- musée d'Art Moderne — Troyes3 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Lons-le-Saunier3 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille3 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum3 recorded works
- Leopold Museum2 recorded works
- MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux2 recorded works
- Musée Carnavalet2 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble2 recorded works
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Dole2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lyon2 recorded works
- musée Malraux — Le Havre2 recorded works
- musée municipal — Pontarlier2 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)2 recorded works
- Château-musée — Dieppe1 recorded work
- Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden1 recorded work
- Kröller-Müller Museum1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Belfort1 recorded work
- musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Granville — Granville1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Langres1 recorded work
- musée d'Art et d'Histoire — Lisieux1 recorded work
- musée de la Grande Saline — Salins-les-Bains1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Dijon1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nancy1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes1 recorded work
- musée des jacobins — Morlaix1 recorded work
- musée des ursulines — Mâcon1 recorded work
- musée du château de Flers — Flers1 recorded work
- musée Eugène Boudin — Honfleur1 recorded work
- Musée Fabre1 recorded work
- musée Mainssieux — Voiron1 recorded work
- musée Maritime de l'Ile Tatihou — Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Soissons1 recorded work
- musée national Picasso - Paris — Paris1 recorded work
- musée Sarret de Grozon — Arbois1 recorded work
- National Gallery1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
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- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)