French1819–1877
Gustave Courbet
The French painter who led Realism, insisting on painting only what he could see and giving unidealised peasants and workers the grand scale once kept for history paintings. He was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his part in the Paris Commune, and died in Switzerland in 1877.
A life in paintings
- 1819Born
- 1839Photography is announced
Daguerre’s process is made public in Paris. Painting no longer has to be the only way to record how things look.
Source: Wikipedia - 1848Revolutions across Europe
Uprisings spread from Paris to Berlin and Vienna, and artists turn towards ordinary people and contemporary life.
Source: Wikipedia - 1874
- 1877Died
Where to see them
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati
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