Gustave Courbet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Through May 18. Gustave Courbet was a man of his time. He believed he was, as well, the man of the hour. Courbet had no patience with the ...

Courbet is often described as the genius at the source of all of modern art. That makes perfect sense, especially if you jump right from him to the most radical work of the past 40 years.

Gustav Courbet’s “La Source du Lison” (1864) was found in a basement at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. (image courtesy University of Pennsylvania) ...

The exhibition "At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered" in the Arthur Ross Gallery is on display from Feb. 4 to May 28. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery unveiled a new ...

Restoratioin of Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans (1849–50) at Musée d’Orsay. Photo: Thibaud Moritz / AFP via Getty Images. There is, by the museum’s own admission, much to address.

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, The Stonebreakers 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 ...

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.

The foolish leader cannot become wise because the leader is led by the crowds and their madness. Gustave Courbet, Portrait de l’artiste dit Le Fou de peur, vers 1844-1848.

A government panel in Britain has recommended that the Fitzwilliam Museum return Gustave Courbet’s “La Ronde Enfantine,” painted circa 1862, to the heirs of a man who fled the Nazis.