Gustave Courbet
1819-1877
French Realist Painter

One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time

Artistically and stylistically influenced by the following painters;   Francisco de Goya Franz HalsRembrandt,  and Meindert Hobbema

Education -  Royal College in Besançon

Cause of Death -  Dropsy, he was also afflicted with excruciating hemorrhoids in his latter years.

 
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Portrait of Zelie Courbet...
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Courbet with His Black Dog, 1842
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The Chateau de Chillon, 1875
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  Gustave Courbet Quotations
 

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


Fine art is knowledge made visible. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily. -- Gustave Courbet Quote
 When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things . . . an object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting. -- Gustave Courbet Quote


The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. -- Gustave Courbet Quote
 

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