biography of Gustave COURBET (1819-1877)

Personal data

Birth : 06/10/1819 - Ornans, France
Death : 12/31/1877 - La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : France

Education

Has frequented the studio of Carl August VON STEUBEN [ 1788-1856 ]

Professional data

Work and Life

1839:Lived and worked in Paris, France

Work

Categorie and medium


Painting : Oil
Print-Multiple : Lithograph
Sculpture-Volume : Bronze - Plaster
Drawing-Watercolor : Charcoal - Graphite - Ink - Lead pencil - Pencil

Subject

animals
self-portrait
composition
marine
still life
nude
landscape
portrait
feelings/emotions

Movements and styles

Realism
19th century

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

Solo exhibitions

2003

Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
Musée Fabre – Montpellier, France
2003 – 10/12/2003

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

Art shows / fairs

1868

Le Salon
Paris, France
1868

Group exhibitions

2006

Correspondances
Musée d’Orsay – Paris, France
01/31/2006 – 04/30/2006

2004

From Delacroix to Courbet. The battle between the Pussinists and the Rubenists
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten – Antwerp, Belgium
03/2004 – 06/2004

Climats, cyclothymie des paysages
Centre national d’art et de paysage – Vassivière, France
07/10/2004 – 10/10/2004

2003

A Private Passion: 19th Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Lyon, France
03/14/2003 – 05/26/2003

2002

Courbet/Hugo, les peintres et les littérateurs
Musée Gustave Courbet – Ornans, France
06/22/2002 – 10/15/2002

1946

Delacroix et son temps (Gros-Géricault-Courbet)
Musée National Eugène Delacroix – Paris, France
11/1946

Legals