Gustave Courbet Paintings

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.
Born: June 10, 1819, Ornans, France
Died: December 31, 1877, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
On view: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée d'Orsay, MORE
Periods: Realism, Romanticism, Academic art
Series: The Wave
Known for: Painting, Sculpture