One of Gustave Courbet's most controversial nudes, "The Origin of the World" will be the centrepiece of a major retrospective ...

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, ...

The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to announce that it has recently received the generous gift of a major landscape work by the artist Gustave Courbet titled Le Grand Pont (1864). This ...

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 ...

After finally agreeing to teach painting, Gustave Courbet brought a cow – rather than a human – to model for his class. The French artist’s conviction that the "living art’’ he sought to paint ...

A "lost" Gustave Courbet painting, once believed to be a fake, has been authenticated by a French museum, artnet News reports. Called Vue du Lac Léman (1876), the 19th century Realist painter’s ...

The Musée du Vieux Granville in Normandy, France has authenticated a work by Realist master Gustave Courbet that has been languishing in its archives since 1945. Vue du Lac Léman (1876), as well as ...

Visitors to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris often encounter a startling sight. While browsing the section of the gallery devoted to the works of French Realist artist Gustave Courbet, they'll come across ...

Some of Courbet's self-portraits (The Desperate Man, The Wounded Man) and genre scenes (Burial at Ornans, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet [The Meeting]) are among the most famous paintings in art history.

Villagers from the birthplace of 19th century painter Gustave Courbet have clubbed together with the French government to raise €4million to buy back one of his paintings. 'The Oak of Flagey', ...

Constance Quéniaux, dancer at the Paris Opera, mistress of rich men and -- improbably at the end -- a well-to-do older lady on one of the chicest streets in Paris You can save this article by ...