A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

Gustave Courbet’s ‘The Stonebreakers’ was a revolutionary work, and one of the French Realist’s greatest paintings. In February 1945 it was destroyed by the Allied air campaign.

Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a rural French village along the border with Switzerland, into a family rising into the bourgeois class of land and business owners.

Gustave Courbet, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 27, 2008-May 18, 2008. The exhibition began at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and continues to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.

Gustave Courbet's infamous "The Origins of the World," an intimate portrait of a female model's nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866. Even more shocking ...

Painter, provocateur, risk taker and revolutionary, Gustave Courbet might well have said, "I offend, therefore I am." Arguably modern art's original enfant terrible, he had a lust for controversy ...

Gustave Courbet’s immense painting A Burial at Ornans (1849-50), measuring more than six metres long, is undergoing an ambitious treatment that includes investigating folds of canvas currently ...

After 175 years, Gustave Courbet’s slow procession of mourners still stirs even the hardened modern heart. Most obviously, this is because it unflinchingly confronts mankind’s eternal subject ...

Musée d'Orsay is restoring Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans live. Art lovers can watch the process, led by Cinzia Pasquali, until mid-2026. View on euronews ...

A government panel in Britain has recommended that the Fitzwilliam Museum return Gustave Courbet’s “La Ronde Enfantine,” painted circa 1862, to the heirs of a man who fled the Nazis.