Gustave Courbet - Finestre sull'Arte

Qatar turns out to own "Desperate" Courbet's masterpiece

The famous Self-Portrait by Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La-Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) known as Le Désespéré ("The Despairing Man") was revealed today to be the property of the Qatar Museums: the news came as an agreement was announ...
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Musée d'Orsay, restoration on view for Gustave Courbet's monumental Funeral at Ornans

The Musée d'Orsay has begun the restoration of A Funeral at Ornans, a monumental masterpiece created by Gustave Courbet between 1849 and 1850. Considered one of the most significant works in the famous Parisian museum's collection because of i...
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The fierce and scandalous realism of Gustave Courbet's Origine du Monde

Among the works representing female bodies, bearers of more or less erotic messages, L'Origine du Monde by Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La-Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) is the one that more than any other engages with fierce realism: it is a work that help...
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Gustave Courbet's Ornans studio opens to the public with guided tours

After a major restoration campaign that began in 2019, Gustave Courbet 's studio in Ornans opens its doors to the public on February 5, 2022. Built in 1860, it was imagined by the artist as an ideal studio, a place of creation immersed in the country...
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Impressionists masterpieces exhibition reopens at Fortress of Bard. There is time until June 24

The Fortress of Bard has reopened the exhibition Masterpieces from the Johannesburg Art Gallery. From the Impressionists to Picasso, suspended by the health emergency. The exhibition was originally scheduled to close on June 2, but has now been exte...
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The mountain painted by Testori's artists, from Courbet to Guttuso, on display in Châtillon

Opening July 11, and remaining open until Sept. 29, is the second exhibition of the new exhibition season at the Gamba Castle in Châtillon: High Colors. The Painted Mountain: Giovanni Testori and His Artists, from Courbet to Guttuso scheduled f...
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Impressionists from Johannesburg Art Gallery arrive in Conegliano: work from Monet onward on display

After making stops in Monza and <a href="/flash-news/2620n_exhibition-<a href="https://www.finestresullarte.info/arte-base/impressionisti-chi-erano-principali-artisti-impressionismo">impressionists</a>-johannesburg-palazzo-ducale-genov...
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"I know my country, I paint it": Gustave Courbet and nature

He is seen proud and self-confident, looking toward the viewer in an almost haughty attitude, in the company of his faithful dog, a black spaniel. It is Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) himself who is seated in the foregr...
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