“Imagination in art is the talent of discovering the most complete expression of an existing thing, but it has never been the talent of creating, or of originating, the thing itself.”

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...