“Dr. Evans often received gifts for his dental skills: oftentimes paintings, oftentimes beautiful decorative objects, gold boxes, fabulous pieces of silver.” A portrait of Thomas W. Evans, whose ...

Enter: Gustave Courbet. Act Two. Always loving center stage, Courbet on March 18 announced the creation of a steering committee of artists demanding freedom from government approved academic art.

After 175 years, Gustave Courbet’s slow procession ... The project arrives a decade on from the restoration of another Courbet vast painting in the same ground floor gallery space, The Painter ...

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Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the ...

After learning its acquisition “The Rock of Hautepierre,” a Gustave Courbet painting circa 1869, earlier had been owned by a collector killed at Auschwitz, the Art Institute made an ...

Seized by the Nazis in occupied France, a painting by Gustave Courbet currently in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, will now be returned to the descendants of the ...

the French artist Gustave Courbet. Largely self-taught and extravagantly self-confident, Courbet was barely 30 when he caused an uproar at the Salon of 1850-51 with his 6.6m-long, defiantly dreary ...

After many rounds of conservation and study, Marsden-Atlass confirmed she had stumbled upon the discovery of her career: The Source of the Lison, a lost painting by French Realist Gustave Courbet ...

Completed in 1850, A Burial at Ornans made Gustave Courbet an enemy of the French art establishment. Now, the life-sized masterwork is undergoing restoration work at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.