Enter: Gustave Courbet. Act Two. Always loving center stage, Courbet on March 18 announced the creation of a steering committee of artists demanding freedom from government approved academic art.

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

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 ...

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 crowds of ...

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 ...

Two women were arrested by French police on Monday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet ... the Woman from the Artist.

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 ...

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 ...

For the record: 11:26 a.m. Aug. 5, 2022A previous version of this article incorrectly cited the artist as Phyllis Rose, and that Gustave Courbet’s piece is named “The Origin of the Universe.” ...

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 ...