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, ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Gustave Courbet’s infamous “The Origin of the World,” an intimate portrait of a female model’s nether ...

After 175 years, Gustave Courbet’s slow procession of mourners still stirs even the hardened modern heart. Most obviously, this is because it unflinchingly confronts mankind’s eternal subject ...

Musée d'Orsay is restoring Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans live. Art lovers can watch the process, led by Cinzia Pasquali, until mid-2026. View on euronews ...

Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a rural French village along the border with Switzerland, into a family rising into the bourgeois class of land and business owners. His father pressed ...

La Ronde Enfantine by Gustave Courbet depicts children dancing in trees A museum will return a 19th Century painting stolen by the Nazis to the descendants of the original Jewish owner.