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Gustave Courbet

1819 - 1877

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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: KOOR-bay; US: koor-BAY; French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) 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 example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Courbet is the 41st most popular painter (down from 40th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from France (down from 88th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Painter.

Gustave Courbet is most famous for his realistic paintings of peasants and other working-class people.

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Among painters, Gustave Courbet ranks 41 out of 2,023. Before him are Marc Chagall, Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, Masaccio, Jacques-Louis David, and Tintoretto. After him are Alphonse Mucha, Paolo Veronese, Nicolas Poussin, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Caspar David Friedrich.

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Among people born in 1819, Gustave Courbet ranks 4. Before him are Queen Victoria, Albert, Prince Consort, and Jacques Offenbach. After him are Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Maria II of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1877, Gustave Courbet ranks 1. After him are Brigham Young, Urbain Le Verrier, Adolphe Thiers, Saigō Takamori, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Henry Fox Talbot, Crazy Horse, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Sophie of Württemberg, and Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Courbet ranks 95 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Louis de Broglie (1892), Louis Braille (1809), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), and Louis de Funès (1914). After him are Guy de Maupassant (1850), William the Conqueror (1028), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Louis Philippe I (1773), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and François Rabelais (1494).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Courbet ranks 11. Before him are Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), and Jacques-Louis David (1748). After him are Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Jean-François Millet (1814), and Théodore Géricault (1791).

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