The Connecticut museum exhibits stellar drawings from its holdings, spanning centuries and featuring such artists as Gainsborough, Ingres, Courbet, Degas, Picasso and Miró. Contributed by John ...

Amateur” is what they called artist Gustave Caillebotte, a bourgeois bachelor who lived in a well-appointed apartment in the ...

It was aimed at rejecting the values of Romanticism and history painting. Artists like Gustave Courbet turned to a more realistic approach to art that involved depicting day-to-day lives.

The background of Self-portrait with Black Dog (Gustave Courbet, early 1840s) is painted with the brightest tones and largely in the most detail. The artist and dog are mostly shown using darker ...