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  2. Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia

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    Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: / ˈ k ʊər b eɪ / KOOR-bay, [1] US: / k ʊər ˈ b eɪ / koor-BAY, [2] French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) [3] was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.

  3. The Meeting (Courbet) - Wikipedia

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    The Meeting or "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet" (French: La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet") is an oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, made in 1854.It depicts the artist on his way to Montpellier meeting his patron Alfred Bruyas, his servant Calas, and his dog Breton.

  4. The Black Stream - Wikipedia

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    The Black Stream (also known as Stream in a Ravine) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painted in 1865 by the French artist Gustave Courbet. It is currently held and exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .

  5. Le Désespéré - Wikipedia

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    Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man or Desperation) is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, produced from 1843 to 1845, during his stay in Paris.It depicts Courbet as a young man staring in front of him with wide eyes, grasping his hair in desperation.

  6. Société Libre des Beaux-Arts - Wikipedia

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    Artistic independence must be spawned by force. It is our desire that art be free. The art of our time must return to man and nature. [6] The goals of the Free Society were influenced by aesthetic ideals set forth by Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon artists and by the poet Charles Baudelaire. "Modernity" and "sincerity" were keywords. [7]

  7. The Painter's Studio - Wikipedia

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    The Jewish man and the Irishwoman were seen on a trip Courbet took to London in 1848, according to a letter Courbet wrote to Champfleury describing what the painting would look like. [5] There is also a "lay figure"/"crucified figure" directly to the left of Courbet's easel. This figure appears contorted and potentially mangled.

  8. Still-Life with Fruit (Courbet) - Wikipedia

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    Still Life with Apples (1872). Still-Life with Fruit (French - Nature morte aux fruits) is a series of still life paintings produced between 1871 and 1872 by Gustave Courbet, marking his return to painting after the silence forced on him by the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, imprisonment and illness.

  9. Young Ladies of the Village - Wikipedia

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    Courbet first exhibited the work at the Paris Salon in April 1852 entitled The Village Maids give alms to a cowherd in a valley near Ornans.It was immediately bought by the duc de Morny despite a public and press polemic against the work – for example, the art critic Théophile Gautier expressesd reservations and felt the canvas was under-finished, [4] whilst Gustave Planche, Eugène Loudun ...