Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was born June 10, 1819 in France to a prosperous farming family. Courbet was a painter who was a catalyst for the Realist movement in nineteenth century French painting. The Realist movement was one which brought the Romantic movement together with the Barbizon School and Impressionism. Courbet as an artist was willing to make bold social commentary in his artwork. Learn more »
Paintings by Gustave Courbet in Chronological Order
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| Portrait of Countess Therese Burnswick, 1830 | Valley of the Loue, 1836 | Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Sleeping Child, 1841 |
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| Self-Portrait with a Black Dog, 1841 | The Embouchment of Seine, 1841 | The Forest in Autumn, 1841 |
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| Juliette Courbet, 1844 | The Man Made Mad by Fear, 1844 | The Draughts Players, 1844 |
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| The Hammock, 1844 | The Happy Lovers, 1844 | The Vagabond, 1845 |
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| The Wounded Man, 1845 | The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait), 1845 | Portrait of Alphonse Promayet, 1847 |
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| Portrait of Zélie Courbet, 1847 | The Cellist, Self Portrait, 1847 | Marc Trapadoux is Examining the Book of Prints, 1848 |
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| Peasant Wearing Madras, c.1848 | After Dinner at Ornans, 1849 | Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1849 |
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| Self-Portrait (The Man with a Pipe), 1849 | The Stone Breaker, 1849 | The Stone Breakers, 1849 |
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| The Valley of the Loue in Stormy Weather, 1849 | A Burial at Ornans, 1850 | Hector Berlioz, 1850 |
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| The Garden of the Loos les Lille Abbacy, 1851 | White Bull and Blond Heifer, 1851 | The Village Maidens, 1852 |
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| The Sleeping Embroiderer, 1853 | The Wrestlers, 1853 | Self-Portrait with Striped Collar, 1854 |
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| The Beach at Palavas, 1854 | The Flood Gate at Optevoz, 1854 | The Homecoming, c.1854 |
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| The Meeting (Bonjour Monsieur Courbet), 1854 | Dressing the Dead Girl (Dressing the Bride), c.1855 | Entering the Forest, c.1855 |
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| Mother Gregoire, 1855 | Portrait of a Spanish Lady, 1855 | Portrait of Champfleury, 1855 |
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| Rocky landscape near Flagey, 1855 | Sitting on Cushions Dog, 1855 | The Approaching Storm, c.1855 |
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| The Chateau d Ornans, c.1855 | The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair, 1855 | The Studio of the Painter (Allegory), 1855 |
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| The Wheat Sifters, 1855 | The Artist’s Studio, 1855 | Dog from Ornans, 1856 |
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| La Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre, 1856 | La Meuse a Freyr, 1856 | Study for Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine, 1856 |
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| Woman with Garland, 1856 | Portrait of a Young Girl, 1857 | Portrait of Madthilde Couq, 1857 |
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| Portrait of Mlle. Jacquet, 1857 | Seacoast (Souvenir of Les Cabanes), 1857 | The Dead Doe, 1857 |
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| The Quarry, 1857 | View of La Tour de Farges, 1857 | Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer), 1857 |
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| The Huntsman”s Picnic, 1858 | Valley of Ornans, 1858 | View of Ornans and Its Church Steeple, c.1858 |
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| Woman of Frankfurt, 1858 | Woman with gloves, 1858 | The German Huntsman, 1859 |
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| In the Woods, c.1860 | Portrait of a Young Girl from Salins, 1860 | The Fox in the Snow, 1860 |
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| The Village Girl with a Goatling, 1860 | Spring, Stags Fighting, 1861 | Bouquet of Flowers, 1862 |
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| Portrait of Monsieur Nicolle, 1862 | Rocky Landscape, c.1862 | The Trellis (Young Woman Arranging Flowers), 1862 |
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| Basket of Flowers, 1863 | Horse in the Woods, 1863 | Rocks at Mouthier, 1863 |
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| Still Life of Flowers, 1863 | Waterfall in the Wood, 1863 | Crumbling Rocks, 1864 |
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| Hunter on Horseback, Redcovering the Trail, 1864 | Landscape Bald Rock in the Valley of Ornans, 1864 | Male and Female Deer in the Woods, 1864 |
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| Reflection, 1864 | The Oak of Flagey (The Oak of Vercingetorix), 1864 | The Reflection, 1864 |
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| The Source of the Loue, 1864 | The Source of the Loue River, 1864 | Cliffs near Ornans, 1865 |
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| Girl with Seagulls,Trouville, 1865 | Going Fishing, 1865 | In the Forest, 1865 |
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| Landscape near Puits Noir, near Ornans, 1865 | Le Chateau de Thoraise, 1865 | Locks on the Loue, 1865 |
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| Low Tide, 1865 | Pierre Joseph Proudhon and his children in 1853, 1865 | Portrait of Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1865 |
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| Portrait of Jules Valles, 1865 | Portrait of Pierre Joseph Proudhon, 1865 | River and Cliff, 1865 |
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| Rocky Landscape with Figure, 1865 | Rocky River Valley, 1865 | Rocky Seashore, c.1865 |
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| The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide, 1865 | The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide, 1865 | The Black Creek, 1865 |
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| The Ornans Paper Mill, 1865 | The River Plaisir Fontaine, 1865 | The Stream in Bremen, 1865 |
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| The Woman in a Podoscaphe, 1865 | Three English Girls at a Window, 1865 | Calm Sea, 1866 |
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| Deer Taking Shelter in Winter, 1866 | Fishing Boats on the Deauville Beach, 1866 | Greyhounds of Comte de Choiseul, 1866 |
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| Landscape of the Ornans Region, 1866 | Seascape, 1866 | Shelter of Deers at Plaisir Fontaine Creek, 1866 |
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| Shores of Normandy, 1866 | Snow Landscape in Jura, 1866 | Solitude, 1866 |
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| The cliffs at Étreat, 1866 | The Return of the Deer to the Stream at Plaisir Fontaine, 1866 | The Source of the Lison, 1866 |
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| The Wave, 1866 | Deer in a Snowy Landscape, 1867 | Deer in the Snow, 1867 |
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| Poachers in the Snow, 1867 | Portrait of Amand Gautier, 1867 | Sea Coast in Normandy, 1867 |
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| The Beach, Sunset, 1867 | The Hunted Deer, Spring, 1867 | The Rest During the Harvest Season (Mountains of the Doubs), 1867 |
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| A Young Woman Reading, 1868 | Deer Shelter, 1868 | Forest Brook with Deer, 1868 |
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| Landscape, 1868 | The Stream of the Puits Noir at Ornans, 1868 | Bay with Cliffs, c.1869 |
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| Boats on a Beach, Etretat, c.1869 | River Landscape, 1869 | Seascape at Etretat, 1869 |
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| The Calm Sea, 1869 | The Cliffs at Etretat, 1869 | The Hallali, 1869 |
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| The Stormy Sea, 1869 | The Wave, 1869 | The Waves, 1869 |
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| Cliffs by the Sea in the Snow, 1870 | Portrait of Jules Antoine Castagnary, 1870 | Seascape, c.1870 |
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| Stormy Sea (The Wave), 1870 | The Angry Sea, c.1870 | The Cliffs at Etretat after the storm, 1870 |
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| The Stormy Sea (The Wave), 1870 | The Wave, 1870 | The Wave, 1870 |
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| Village Street in Winter, 1870 | Branch of apple blossoms, 1871 | Head of a Woman with Flowers, 1871 |
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| Pomegranates, 1871 | Red Apples, 1871 | Still Life Apples and Pears, 1871 |
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| Still Life Apples, Pears and Flowers on a Table, Saint Pelagie, 1871 | Still Life with Apples and Pomegranates, 1871 | The Source among the Rocks of the Doubs, 1871 |
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| The Wave, 1871 | Three Red Apples, 1871 | After the Storm, 1872 |
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| Hollyhocks in a Copper Bowl, 1872 | Landscape near Puit Noir, near Ornans, 1872 | Still Life, 1872 |
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| Still Life Fruit, c.1872 | TA The Loue Valley, c.1872 | The Trout, 1872 |
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| Calm Seas, 1873 | Chateau de Chillon, 1873 | Landscape, 1873 |
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| Seascape, the Poplar, c.1873 | Self-Portrait at Sainte Pelagie, 1873 | Still Life with Pears and Apples, c.1873 |
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| Still Life with Three Trout from the Loue River, 1873 | Stream in the Jura Mountains, 1872-1873 | The Giants Cave from Saillon (Switzerland), 1873 |
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| The Glacier, 1873 | The Source at Ornans, 1873 | The Trout, 1873 |
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| Chateau du Chillon, 1874 | Henri Rochefort, 1874 | Juliette Courbet, 1874 |
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| Lake Leman, 1874 | Seascape, 1874 | Snow, 1874 |
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| Sunset over Lake Leman, 1874 | The Chateau de Chillon, c.1874 | View of the Parc de Crete over Clarens, 1874 |
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| Beach in Normandy, c.1872-c.1875 | Chateau du Chillon, 1874-1875 | View of Neuenburger, c.1875 |
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| Woods in the Snow, c.1875 | Paysage Guyere, 1874 | Swiss Landscape with Flowering Apple Tree, c.1876 |
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| The Deer, 1876 | Waterfall in the Jura, 1876 | Lake Geneve before the Storm, c.1873-c.1877 |
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| Study for Landscape with Waterfall, c.1877 | The White Sail, 1877 | A Family of Deer in a Landscape with a Waterfall |
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| Bather Sleeping by a Brook | Bouquet of flowers | Bouquet of flowers |
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| Chateau de Chillon | Deer”s Shelter in Winter | Frankfurt |
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| Head of a Young Doe | Head of Gazelle | La Ferme De Bonnevaux |
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| Landscape | Landscape of Franche Comté | Landscape with Stag |
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| Les Doubs A La Maison Monsieur | Marine Les Equilleurs | Poor Woman of the Village |
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| Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau | Portrait of Paul Ansout | Portrait of Paul Chenavard |
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| Portrait of Paul Verlaine | Portrait of Régis Courbet | Portrait of the Artist”s Father |
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| Portrait of Zélie Courbet | Riverside | Seascape |
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| Seascape at Saint Aubin | Seascape Near Trouville | Still Life with Apples and Pomegranates |
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| The Beach at Trouville | The Cliff | The English Horse of M. Duval |
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| The Forest Edge | The Gorge | The Man with the Leather Belt, a Portrait of the Artist |
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| The Mountain Hut | The Stream | The Wave |
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| The Young Shepherdess | Two Roe Deers in the Forest | Valley at Fontcouvert |