Gustave Courbet was already an art star but still itching for greater renown when he took matters into his own bold hands in 1855. Dissatisfied with the works representing him in the official ...

This chart shows whether Gustave Courbet’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks have ...

It’s always odd to think of James McNeill Whistler, of Lowell, as a protégé of Gustave Courbet, of Ornans ... he was attracted to crashing waves. He loved to pile on the paint, working ...

According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde ... the head of the French National Library’s print department Sylvie Aubenas, who corroborated ...

In The Meeting, Gustave Courbet depicts ... Here, and in his paintings of waves swelling to full height at the instant they will crash over rocks, Courbet paints the unpaintable.

Gustave Courbet’s ‘L’Atelier du Peintre” (1854-55). © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt Four major artists talk to us about where ...