The mystery behind one of the most controversial paintings in art history may have just been solved. According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The Origin ...

Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval. Gustave ...

The New York Studio School was lively Wednesday evening as Johns Hopkins University professor Michael Fried and New Criterion coeditor and co-publisher Roger Kimball offered starkly varying views on ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet wrote to his parents in 1852. He was in his early ...

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a renowned French painter who played a pivotal role in the development of the Realist art movement during the 19th century. He was born in Ornans, a small town in ...

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An American con artist has been charged for allegedly defrauding a London gallery owner over an early Gustave Courbet painting. The quiet beauty and haunting charm of snow-covered landscapes, bare ...

Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the women ...

"[They] call me ‘the socialist painter.' I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a democrat and a Republican as well--in a word, a partisan of all the revolution and above all ...