A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...

Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval. Gustave ...

A "lost" Gustave Courbet painting, once believed to be a fake, has been authenticated by a French museum, artnet News reports. Called Vue du Lac Léman (1876), the 19th century Realist painter’s ...

In 2016, contract workers found a box in the basement of the University of Pennsylvania’s dental school with a dirty canvas inside. They brought the box to the office of Liz Ketterlinus, a vice dean ...

Qatar has revealed itself as the owner of a famous self-portrait by French realist master Gustave Courbet and will loan the painting to Paris's Musee d'Orsay for five years, museum officials said on ...

A British university museum has agreed to return a 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, which was seized by the Nazis, to the descendants of its original Jewish owner.

This photograph taken on October 13, 2025 shows French painter Gustave Courbet's oil-on-canvas "Self Portrait", also known as "Desperation" and "The Desperate Man" (1843-1845) exhibited on loan at the ...

On the occasion of the official tribute paid to Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie president Sylvain Amic, the Musée d'Orsay and Qatar Museums (QM) announced an agreement to loan Gustave Courbet's ...