[1] While artists go in and out of fashion for various reasons, the renewed interest of late in French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) corresponds to a turn in the contemporary art scene ...

Completed in 1850, A Burial at Ornans made Gustave Courbet an enemy of the French art establishment. Now, the life-sized masterwork is undergoing restoration work at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Musée d'Orsay is restoring Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans live. Art lovers can watch the process, led by Cinzia Pasquali, until mid-2026. View on euronews ...

Ornans, France—It has become almost a commonplace to link the French realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) to his rural birthplace, this village on the Loue River in the easternmost region ...

the French artist Gustave Courbet. Largely self-taught and extravagantly self-confident, Courbet was barely 30 when he caused an uproar at the Salon of 1850-51 with his 6.6m-long, defiantly dreary ...

The Musée du Vieux Granville in Normandy, France has authenticated a work by Realist master Gustave Courbet that has been languishing in its archives since 1945. Vue du Lac Léman (1876), as well ...