Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a rural French village along the border with Switzerland, into a family rising into the bourgeois class of land and business owners.

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

Gustave Courbet's infamous "The Origins of the World," an intimate portrait of a female model's nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866. Even more shocking ...

Gustave Courbet, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 27, 2008-May 18, 2008. The exhibition began at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and continues to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.

Gustave Courbet’s ‘The Stonebreakers’ was a revolutionary work, and one of the French Realist’s greatest paintings. In February 1945 it was destroyed by the Allied air campaign.

Gustave Courbet was a French 19th Century painter who was born in 1819. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge. Numerous key galleries and museums ...

In 1854, Gustave Courbet wrote to his friend and patron, Alfred Bruyas, asking him to send a photograph of a nude woman that the two had previously discussed, because he wanted to include her in the ...

Gustave Courbet was already an art star but still itching for greater renown when he took matters into his own bold hands in 1855. Dissatisfied with the works representing him in the official ...

BEFORE we had Madonna, France had Gustave Courbet – master chameleon and press manipulator extraordinaire. The 19th-century painter not only survived scandals, he also stoked them: depicting … ...

A government panel in Britain has recommended that the Fitzwilliam Museum return Gustave Courbet’s “La Ronde Enfantine,” painted circa 1862, to the heirs of a man who fled the Nazis.

It’s odd to think of James McNeill Whistler, of Lowell, as a protégé of Gustave Courbet, of Ornans. But for a little while, he was. An Irishwoman, Jo Hiffernan, came between them. But in the ...