A Burial at Ornans
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Courbet turned a village funeral into a life-size history painting. This docent tour reads the crowd, the open grave and the scale that made the Salon of 1850 take notice.
Artist portrait · Image credit
Nadar. Image source · Public domain
The people behind the art
Gustave Courbet
1819 to 1877
Gustave Courbet was a French painter (1819–1877). Their work is associated with French Realism. Their recorded places of work include Paris; Ornans.
3 artworks in the archive
- Born
- 1819
- Died
- 1877
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Ornans
- Died in
- La Tour-de-Peilz
In the archive
Artworks by Gustave Courbet
Model Reading in the Studio
Artist: Gustave Courbet
A studio interior in which a seated model reads from an open book, credited to Gustave Courbet and dated to about 1849 in the supplied record, which also notes the work's appearance in the 1977 Courbet catalogue raisonne by Fernier. The evidence available describes the subject and custody but supplies no medium, dimensions, provenance, exhibition history or curatorial interpretation, so this tour stays close to what the record actually supports.
Contains nudity Show this artwork here in the feed. Show artwork Hide artwork : L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World)
L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World)
Artist: Gustave Courbet
A close-cropped oil painting of a reclining nude, made by Gustave Courbet in 1866 and now in the Musée d'Orsay. This short tour looks at what the painting shows, how its cropping and setting shape that subject, and which readings the supplied record does and does not support.
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