“I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.'”

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...