Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Portrait d’une jeune fille (Portrait of a Young Girl) 1857 Oil on canvas, 60.4 x 52.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Portrait d’une jeune fille (1857)
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La Grotte de la Loue (1864)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Grotte de la Loue (The Cave of the Loue) 1864 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 130.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Courbet painted events and scenery primarily from his native Ornans, a village in the remote Franche-Comté…
Les Roches Noires à Trouville (1865-1866)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les Roches Noires à Trouville (The Black Rocks at Trouville) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We stand on a beach lined with black rocks and boulders looking out onto the water…
Mer calme (1866)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Mer calme (Calm Sea) 1866 Oil on canvas, 54.1 x 63.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (c.1866)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (Sunset Effect: The Shore at Trouville) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the mid-1860s, Courbet visited the fashionable resort of Trouville on the Normandy…
Théodore Duret
(1838–1927) Théodore Duret in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret 1868 Petit Palais, Paris Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Théodore Duret 1912 National Gallery of Art, Washington Whistler, James (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York…
Pompiers courant à un incendie (1851)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Pompiers courant à un incendie (Firefighters running to a fire) 1851 Oil on canvas, 388 x 580 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Firemen is one of Courbet’s most enigmatic large-scale works. After the death of her brother, Juliette Courbet…
Le Sommeil (1866)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Sommeil (The Sleep) 1866 Oil on canvas, 135 x 200 cm Petit Palais, Paris Courbet, who paved the way for Realism in the mid-19th century, remained on the fringes of official art thanks to the support of…
Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine, été (1857)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine, été (Young Women of the banks of the Seine, summer) 1857 Oil on canvas, 174 x 206 cm Petit Palais, Paris These young women have come out from the city one hot…
La sieste pendant la saison des foins (1868)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La sieste pendant la saison des foins (The siesta during the hay season) 1868 Oil on canvas, 212 x 273 cm Petit Palais, Paris This rural scene painted by Courbet offers a tranquil vision of peasant life, depicted…