Gustave Courbet – Artwork & Bio of the French Painter

Gustave Corbet was a French painter born on 10 June 1819 in Omans, France. Despite having no formal artistic education, Corbet established himself as one of the best artists of his time. After moving to Paris in 1840, he developed himself by copying the works of old masters and painting Plein air instead of enrolling at a formal art institution.

Courbet painted strictly in a realist manner, refusing to entertain any form of imagined subjects. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and won a gold medal in 1849. In his later years, Courbet painted portraits, landscapes, and seascapes that later influenced artists of the Impressionism movement. He died of liver disease on 31 December 1877 in Switzerland.

What was Gustave Corbet Known For?

Gustave Corbet was known for his revolutionary paintings of landscapes, figures, and seascapes with a strict realist technique. Courbet was rebellious and incorporated it into his artistic career, refusing to waver from his style. His subjects include live models, natural genre scenes, landscapes, and seascapes.

Who was Gustave Courbet Infleunced By?

Gustave Courbet was influenced by the works of Caravaggio, Paul Rubens, Diego Velazquez, and Rembrandt Rijn, which he copied and recreated to develop his style. Asides from the few painting lessons he received from art instructors, Courbet’s learned to paint through disciplined, rigorous practice and replication.

What Art Movement was Gustave Courbet Associated With?

Gustave Courbet was associated with the Realism art movement. During an era when classical art was the order of the day, Courbet stuck to painting with realist techniques and often rejected any commission that demanded otherwise. Courbet’s determination and rigidity impacted emerging art movements.

Gustave Courbet Artworks

Despite being rejected by art salons for many of his submissions, collectors and dealers in the art world covet Courbet’s works. Below are some of them

After Dinner at Ornans

Bather Sleeping by a Brook

Crumbling Rocks

Going Fishing

The Bathers

The Dead Doe

The Oak of Flagey

The Painter’s Studio

The Seaside at Palavas

The Sleeping Spinner

The Village Maidens

The Wheat Sifters

The Woman in the Waves

The Wounded Man

Valley of Ornans

Woman with a Parrot

Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer)

All Gustave Courbet Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name	Year	Medium
Henri Rochefort	1874	oil,canvas
Hollyhocks in a Copper Bowl	1872	oil,canvas
Horse in the Woods	1863	oil,canvas
Hunter on Horseback, Redcovering the Trail	1864	oil,canvas
In the Forest
In the Forest	1865	oil,canvas
In the Woods	c.1860	oil,canvas
Juliette Courbet	1844	oil,canvas
Juliette Courbet	1873 - 1874	oil,canvas
La Bacchante		oil,canvas
Snow Landscape in Jura	1866
Solitude	1866	oil,canvas
Spring, Stags Fighting	1861	oil,canvas
Standing Female Nude
Standing Fermale Nude
Still Life	c.1871 - c.1872	oil,canvas
Still Life Apples and Pears	1871	oil,canvas
Still Life Apples, Pears and Flowers on a Table, Saint Pelagie	1871	oil,canvas
Still Life Fruit	c.1871 - c.1872	oil,canvas
Still Life of Flowers	1863	oil,canvas
The Wheat Sifters	1854 - 1855	oil,canvas
The White Sail	1877	oil,canvas
The Woman in a Podoscaphe	1865	oil,canvas
The Wrestlers	1852 - 1853	oil,canvas
The Young Bather	1866
The Young Shepherdess		oil,canvas
Three English Girls at a Window	1865	oil,canvas
Three Red Apples	1871
Two Roe Deers in the Forest		oil,canvas
Valley at Fontcouvert		oil,canvas
La Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre	1856
La Ferme De Bonnevaux		oil,canvas
Lake Geneve before the Storm	c.1873 - c.1877	oil,canvas
Lake Leman	1874	oil,canvas
La Meuse a Freyr	1856
Landscape
Landscape	1868	oil,canvas
Landscape	1873
Landscape Bald Rock in the Valley of Ornans	1864	oil,canvas
Landscape near Puit Noir, near Ornans	1872	oil,panel
Still Life with Apples and Pomegranates	1871	oil,canvas
Still Life with Apples and Pomegranates	1871
Still Life with Pears and Apples	c.1873	oil,canvas
Still Life with Three Trout from the Loue River	1873	oil,canvas
Stormy Sea (The Wave)	1870
Study for Landscape with Waterfall	c.1877	oil,canvas
Study for Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine	1856	oil,canvas
Sunset over Lake Leman	1874	oil,canvas
Swiss Landscape with Flowering Apple Tree	c.1876	oil,canvas
Valley of Ornans	1858	oil,canvas
Valley of the Loue	1835 - 1836
View of La Tour de Farges	1857	oil,canvas
View of Neuenburger	c.1875	oil,canvas
View of Ornans and Its Church Steeple	c.1858	oil,canvas
View of the Forest of Fontainebleau
View of the Parc de Crete over Clarens	1874	oil,canvas
Village Street in Winter	c.1865 - c.1870	oil,canvas
Waterfall in the Jura	1876	oil,canvas
Waterfall in the Wood	1863
Landscape near Puits Noir, near Ornans	1865	oil,canvas
Landscape of Franche Comté
Landscape of the Ornans Region	1866	oil,canvas
Landscape with Stag		oil,canvas
Landscape with Tree	c.1868	oil,canvas
Le Chateau de Thoraise	1865	oil,canvas
Les Doubs A La Maison Monsieur		oil,canvas
Locks on the Loue	1865	oil,canvas
Low Tide	1865	oil,canvas
Male and Female Deer in the Woods	1864	oil,canvas
The Loue Valley	c.1872	oil,canvas
The Angry Sea	c.1869 - c.1870	oil,canvas
The Approaching Storm	c.1855
The Bathers	1858
The Beach at Palavas	1854
The Beach at Trouville		oil,canvas
The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide	1865	oil,canvas
The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide	1865	oil,canvas
The Beach, Sunset	1867	oil,canvas
The Black Creek	1865
White Bull and Blond Heifer	1850 - 1851
Woman of Frankfurt	1858	oil,canvas
Woman with Garland	1856	oil,canvas
Woman with gloves	1858
Woman with White Stockings	1861	oil,canvas
Woods in the Snow	c.1875	oil,canvas
Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer)	1856 - 1857	oil,canvas
Malle Babbe (after Hals)	1869
Marc Trapadoux is Examining the Book of Prints	1848
Marine Les Equilleurs		oil,canvas
Marine the Waterspout
Mme L Laure
Mother Gregoire	1855	oil,canvas
Nude Reclining by the Sea
Paysage Guyere	1874 - 1876	oil,canvas
Peasant Wearing Madras	c.1848	oil,canvas
Pierre Joseph Proudhon and his children in 1853	1853 - 1865	oil,canvas
The Calm Sea	1869	oil,canvas
The Chateau de Chillon	c.1874	oil,canvas
The Chateau d Ornans	c.1854 - c.1855	oil,canvas
The Clairvoyant
The Cliff
The cliffs at Étretat	1866
The Cliffs at Etretat	1869	oil,canvas
The Dead Doe	1857
The Deer	1876
The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait)	1843 - 1845
Poachers in the Snow	1867	oil,canvas
Pomegranates	1871	oil,canvas
Poor Woman of the Village		oil,canvas
Portrait of Alfred Bruyas (Painting Solution)	1853	oil,canvas
Portrait of Alphonse Promayet	1847
Portrait of Amand Gautier	1867
Portrait of a Spanish Lady	1855	oil,canvas
Portrait of a Young Girl	1857
Portrait of a Young Girl from Salins	1860	oil,canvas
Portrait of Champfleury	1855
The Draughts Players	1844	oil,canvas
The Embouchment of Seine	1841
The English Horse of M. Duval		oil,canvas
The Farmers of Flagey
The Fishing Boat
The Flood Gate at Optevoz	1854	oil,canvas
The Forest Edge		oil,canvas
The Forest in Autumn	1841	oil,canvas
The Fox in the Snow	1860	oil,canvas
The Garden of the Loos les Lille Abbacy	1851
A Family of Deer in a Landscape with a Waterfall		oil,canvas
After Dinner at Ornans	1848 - 1849	oil,canvas
After the Storm	1872	oil,panel
A Monks Burial
A Young Woman Reading	1866 - 1868
Basket of Flowers	1863	oil,canvas
Bather Sleeping by a Brook
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire	1848 - 1849	oil,canvas
Portrait of Countess Therese Burnswick	1830	oil,canvas
Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau		oil,paper
Portrait of Jules Antoine Castagnary	1870
Portrait of Jules Valles	1855 - 1865	oil,canvas
Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Sleeping Child	1841	graphite,paper
Portrait of Madthilde Couq	1857	oil,paper
Portrait of Mlle. Jacquet	1857	oil,canvas
Portrait of Monsieur Nicolle	1862	oil,canvas
Portrait of Paul Ansout
The German Huntsman	1859	oil,canvas
The Giants Cave from Saillon (Switzerland)	1873
The Glacier	1873	oil,canvas
The Gorge		oil,canvas
The Death of the Deer	1866 - 1867	oil,canvas
The Hammock	1844	oil,canvas
The Happy Lovers	1844	oil,canvas
The Homecoming	c.1854	oil,canvas
The Houses of the Chateau D'Ornans	1853	oil,canvas
The Hunted Deer, Spring	1867
Bay with Cliffs	c.1869	oil,canvas
Beach in Normandy	c.1872 - c.1875	oil,canvas
Beach Scene
Boats on a Beach, Etretat	c.1869
Bouquet of flowers		oil,canvas
Bouquet of flowers		oil,canvas
Bouquet of Flowers	1862	oil,canvas
Branch of apple blossoms	1871
Calm Sea	1866
Calm Seas	1873	oil,canvas
Portrait of Paul Chenavard	1869	oil,canvas
Portrait of Paul Verlaine
Portrait of Pierre Joseph Proudhon	1865	oil,canvas
Portrait of Régis Courbet
Portrait of the Artist's Father		oil,canvas
Portrait of Zélie Courbet
Portrait of Zélie Courbet	1847	oil,canvas
Reclining nude
Red Apples	1871
River and Cliff	1865	oil,canvas
The Huntsman's Picnic	1858	oil,canvas
The Man Made Mad by Fear	c.1843 - c.1844	oil,canvas
The Man with the Leather Belt, a Portrait of the Artist
The Mountain Hut		oil,canvas
The Oak of Flagey (The Oak of Vercingetorix)	1864	oil,canvas
The Ornans Paper Mill	c.1865
The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair	1850 - 1855	oil,canvas
The Quarry	1857	oil,canvas
The Reflection	1864
The Rest During the Harvest Season (Mountains of the Doubs)	1867
Chateau de Chillon		oil,canvas
Chateau de Chillon	1873	oil,canvas
Chateau du Chillon	1874	oil,canvas
Chateau du Chillon	1874 - 1875	oil,canvas
Cliffs by the Sea in the Snow	1870	oil,canvas
Cliffs near Ornans	1865	oil,canvas
Crumbling Rocks	1864	oil,canvas
Deer in a Snowy Landscape	1867	oil,canvas
Deer in the Forest
Deer in the Snow	1865 - 1867	oil,canvas
River Landscape	1869	oil,canvas
Riverside
Rocks at Mouthier	c.1860 - c.1863	oil,canvas
Rocky Landscape	c.1862	oil,canvas
Rocky landscape near Flagey	1855	oil,canvas
Rocky Landscape with Figure	1865	oil,canvas
Rocky River Valley	1865	oil,canvas
Rocky Seashore	c.1865	oil,canvas
Sea Coast in Normandy	1867	oil,canvas
Seacoast (Souvenir of Les Cabanes)	1854 - 1857	oil,canvas
The Return of the Deer to the Stream at Plaisir Fontaine	1866	oil,canvas
The River Plaisir Fontaine	1865	oil,canvas
The Sea
The Sleeping Embroiderer	1853	oil,canvas
The Source among the Rocks of the Doubs	1871	oil,canvas
The Source at Ornans	1873
The Source (Bather at the Source)	1868	oil,canvas
The Source of the Lison	1866	oil,canvas
The Source of the Loue River	1864	oil,canvas
The Stone Breaker	1849	oil,canvas
Deer Shelter	1868	oil,canvas
Deer's Shelter in Winter
Deer Taking Shelter in Winter	1866	oil,canvas
Dog from Ornans	1856	oil,canvas
Dressing the Dead Girl (Dressing the Bride)	c.1855	oil,canvas
The Origin of the World	1866	Oil on Canvas
Entering the Forest	c.1855	oil,canvas
Female Nude with a Dog (Portrait of Leotine Renaude)		oil,canvas
Fishing Boats on the Deauville Beach	1866	oil,canvas
Forest Brook with Deer	1868	oil,canvas
Frankfurt am Main	1858	oil,canvas
Seascape		oil,canvas
Seascape	c.1870
Seascape	1865 - 1866	oil,canvas
Seascape	1874	oil,canvas
Seascape at Etretat	1869	oil,canvas
Seascape at Saint Aubin		oil,canvas
Seascape Near Trouville		oil,canvas
Seascape, the Poplar	c.1873	oil,canvas
Self Portrait
Self-Portrait at Sainte Pelagie	1872 - 1873	oil,canvas
The Stone Breakers	1849	oil,canvas
The Stormy Sea	1869	oil,canvas
The Stormy Sea (The Wave)	1870	oil,canvas
The Stream
The Stream Artist
The Stream in Bremen	1865	oil,canvas
The Stream of the Puits Noir at Ornans	1868	oil,canvas
The Trellis (Young Woman Arranging Flowers)	1862	oil,canvas
The Trout	1873	oil,canvas
The Vagabond	1845	oil,canvas
Stream in the Jura Mountains	1872 - 1873
Girl with Seagulls,Trouville	1865	oil,canvas
Going Fishing	1865	oil,canvas
Greyhounds of Comte de Choiseul	1866
Gustave Courbet
Head of a Sleeping Bacchante
Head of a Woman with Flowers	1871	oil,canvas
Head of a Young Doe
Head of Gazelle
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz	1850	oil,canvas
Self-Portrait (The Man with a Pipe)	1848 - 1849	oil,canvas
Self-Portrait with a Black Dog	1841	oil,canvas
Self-Portrait with Striped Collar	1854	oil,canvas
Self Portrait with Upraised Arm
Shelter of Deers at Plaisir Fontaine Creek	1866
Shores of Normandy	1866
Sitting on Cushions Dog	1855	oil,canvas
Sleeping Nude		oil,canvas
Sleeping Nude Woman	1862
Snow	1874	oil,canvas
The Valley of the Loue in Stormy Weather	1849	oil,canvas
The Village Girl with a Goatling	1860
The Village Maidens	1851 - 1852	oil,canvas
The Wave		oil,canvas
The Wave	1866	oil,canvas
The Wave	1869	oil,canvas
The Wave	1870	oil,canvas
The Wave	1871	oil,canvas
The Waves	1869	oil,canvas
The Sleepers, or Sleep	1866	Oil on Canvas
The Woman in the Waves	1868	Oil on Canvas
Woman with a Parrot	1866	Oil on Canvas
The Source	1868	Oil on Canvas
The Bathers	1853	Oil on Canvas
The Stormy Sea (or The Wave)	1869	Oil On Canvas
A Thicket Of Deer At The Stream Of Plaisir-fontaine	1866	Oil On Canvas
The Sleeping Spinner	1853	Oil On Canvas
Seacoast	1865	Oil On Canvas
The Oak At Flagey (the Oak Of Vercingetorix)	1864	Oil On Canvas
Count De Choiseul's Greyhounds	1866	Oil On Canvas
Still Life: Fruit	1871-72	Oil On Canvas
Portrait of Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl	1865	Oil on Canvas
A Burial at Ornans	1849 - 1850	Oil on Canvas
The Source of the Loue	1863 - 1864	chalk
The Trout	1872	Oil on Canvas
Portrait of the Artist, called The Wounded Man	1844 - 1845	Oil on Canvas
Portrait of the Artist (Man with a Pipe)	c. 1848-49	Oil on Canvas
The Meeting, or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet	1854	Oil on Canvas
Still Life with Apples and Pomegranate	1871-72	Oil on Canvas
The Cellist, Self-Portrait	1847	Oil on Canvas
The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm	1869 - 1870	Oil on Canvas
The Painter's Studio; A Real Allegory	1854 - 1855	Oil on Canvas
The Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer)	1856-57	Oil on Canvas