Orsay Museum lets visitors watch art restoration, usually done behind closed doors, as experts scrape 50 years of grime off a ...

PARIS (AP) — As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable job of ignoring their unusual surroundings: They're watched by ...

Courbet's acquaintances in Paris were under the impression—craftily abetted by the artist himself—that he was an ignorant peasant who had stumbled into art. In truth, Jean Désiré-Gustave ...

A Burial at Ornans made Gustave Courbet an enemy of the French art establishment. Now, the life-sized masterwork is undergoing restoration work at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. “This painting is a ...

A photograph of the painter Gustave Courbet accompanies an exhibit of ... the European art professor. In exile, Courbet established a studio with other artists and painted landscapes similar to the ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet ... work by the French artist Annette Messager ...

PARIS (AP) — As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable job of ignoring their unusual surroundings: They’re ...