Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Après la chasse (After the Hunt) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 236.2 x 186.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) 1866 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 195.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this painting was shown in the Salon of 1866, some critics censured Courbet‘s “lack of…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Trombe (Marine: The Waterspout) 1870 Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 1866. This…
(1924–2009) Maurice-Alexis Jarre Works: • Doctor Zhivago (1965) • Dr. Zhivago: ‘Lara’s Theme’ • Jesus of Nazareth (1977) Filmography as Composer: Doctor Zhivago 1965 Director: David Lean Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie Isadora 1968 Director: Karel Reisz Starring:…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Jeunes femmes du village (Young Ladies of the Village) 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 194.9 x 261 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting, which initiated a series of pictures devoted to the lives of women,…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La mer calme (The Calm Sea) 1869 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this view looking out over the English Channel during a visit to Étretat along the…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La jeune baigneuse (The Young Bather) 1866 Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The traditional theme of women bathing attracted Courbet’s attention repeatedly in the 1860s. This scene revisits a…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) L’Amazone (Woman in a Riding Habit) c.1855–1859 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 89.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting of a horsewoman (in French, amazone) was first observed in Courbet’s studio in the late…
(1925–2002) Rodney Stephen Steiger Filmography as Actor: Doctor Zhivago 1965 Director: David Lean Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie Waterloo 1970 Director: Sergei Bondarchuk Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer Jesus of Nazareth 1977 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey Born…
