Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1819)

Gustave Courbet

French realist painter (1819–1877)

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an…