Gustave Courbet
1819–1877 · Realism · 19 works
Courbet challenged artistic convention by giving ordinary people and familiar places the scale and seriousness of grand painting. A central figure in French Realism, he treated direct experience as the basis of art. His landscapes bring that attention to the physical character of rocks, water and terrain.
Life and work
- 1855
- Opens the Pavilion of Realism
Courbet organized an independent display in Paris after two major paintings were rejected by the Exposition Universelle.
19 works · 1850–1877
1850–1857 · 9 works
Walk these 9In the museum: Realism room · 2 works
The Brook of Les Puits-Noirc. 1855
Woman in a Riding Habit (L'Amazone)ca. 1855–59
Alphonse Promayet (1822–1872)1851
Young Ladies of the Village1851–52
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)ca. 1852–57
View of Ornansprobably mid-1850s
Mère Grégoire1855, reworked 1857–59
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare1857
Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable1857
1860–1866 · 7 works
Walk these 7In the museum: Realism room · 3 works
1868–1877 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: Realism room · 1 work
Adolph Menzel
In a Railway Carriage (After a Night's Journey), 1851
Augustin Théodule Ribot
Cats (recto), 1838–91
Carducius Plantagenet Ream
Purple Plums, 1895
