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Gustave Courbet

1819–1877

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Gustave Courbet was a leading figure of the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting, challenging academic conventions and championing the depiction of ordinary life with unflinching honesty. He advocated for an art free from idealized subjects and mythological narratives, asserting that only what could be directly observed and experienced was worthy of representation. His combative personality and radical artistic pronouncements often placed him at odds with the established art world and political authorities.

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The Stone Breakers
A Burial at Ornans
The Artist's Studio (The True Allegory of a Seven-Year Period of My Artistic Life)
L'Origine du monde
The Sleepers

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