“The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.”

About Gustave Courbet

Painter • French

Gustave Courbet was a pivotal French painter and a leading figure in the Realism movement. He rejected the prevailing Romantic and Neoclassical traditions, instead depicting unidealized peasants and workers on a grand...