“To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearances of my time as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.”

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...