Painting #067 - J.D.G. Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet

(1819–1877, French Realist) 

Self-portrait with a Black Dog

- Gustave Courbet

- oil on canvas (46 × 56 cm) 1842-44

- Petit Palais (Paris)

 

Self-portrait (Man with Leather Belt)

- Gustave Courbet

- oil on canvas (100 x 82 cm) 1845-46

- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)

The Wounded Man
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (82 × 98 cm) 1844-54
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)

The Stonebreakers
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (165 x 257 cm) 1849
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)
- painting lost in bombing in 1945

After Dinner at Ornans
- Gustave Courbet 
- oil on canvas (195 x 275 cm) 1849
- Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (Lille, France)

A Burial at Ornans
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (315 × 660 cm) 1849-50
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)

Exhibition at the 1850–1851 Paris Salon created an "explosive reaction" and brought Courbet instant fame.

The Bathers

- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (227 × 193 cm) 1853
- Musée Fabre (Montpellier)

The Meeting ("Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet")
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (132 x 151 cm) 1854
- Musée Fabre (Montpellier)

Arrogant Courbet greeted by his patron, with humble servant and dog.

The Painter's Studio  
- Courbet

- oil on canvas (361 × 598 cm) 1855

- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)

Spring, Stags Fighting
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (355 x 507 cm) 1861
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris)

Woman with a Parrot
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (130 × 196 cm) 1866
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)

The Sleepers (Le Sommeil)
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (135 × 200 cm) 1866
- Petit Palais (Paris)

Killing a Deer
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (355 × 505 cm) c.1867
- Museum of Fine Arts (Besançon)

The Cliffs at Etretat
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (93 x 114 cm) 1869
- Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)

The Wave
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (80 x 100 cm) 1870
- Oskar Reinhart Foundation (Winterthur, Switzerland)

The Trout
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (53 x 87 cm) 1872
- Kunsthaus (Zürich)

Chillon Castle
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (73 x 92 cm) 1874-77
- private collection

Winter Landscape with the Dents du Midi
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (72 x 92 cm) 1866-68
- private collection

A satirical sketch of Gustave Courbet taking down a "Rambuteau column" (a urinal), caricature published by a popular Commune newspaper, the Père Duchêne illustré.

Commune officials pose with the wreckage of the Vendôme column, pulled down based on a suggestion of Courbet. After the fall of the Commune, he was ordered to pay the cost of putting the column back up.

Source: Wikipedia