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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 French artist Gustave Courbet. Largely self-taught and extravagantly self-confident, Courbet was barely 30 when he caused an uproar at the Salon of 1850-51 with his 6.6m-long, defiantly dreary ...

AS they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable ...

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 ...

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.” ...