Gustave Courbet Gallery
WORK DATE:   1854
MATERIALS:   Oil on canvas
SIZE:   191.5 x 165.5 cm (75.375 x 65.25 in)
STYLE:   Realism
GALLERY:   Martin Summers Fine Art Ltd  +44 (0) 20 7351 7778

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Porteuses de Fagots
Grotto of Sarrazine
Standing Female Nude
Bohemienne et ses Enfants
Rock at Bayard, Dinart
Reclining Woman
Woman with a Parrot

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Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) Gustave Courbet was born in Ornans, France. He went to Paris in 1839. Towards the end of the 1860s, Courbet painted a series of increasingly erotic works. His refusal of the cross of the Legion of Honour, offered to him by Napoleon III, made him immensely popular.
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