The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to announce that it has recently received the generous gift of a major landscape work by the artist Gustave Courbet titled Le Grand Pont (1864). This ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

Larry Mantle talks with Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman, curators of the Getty Museum’s new Gustave Courbet exhibit which runs through May 14th. The Museum is presenting 46 landscape paintings by ...

The Musée du Vieux Granville in Normandy, France has authenticated a work by Realist master Gustave Courbet that has been languishing in its archives since 1945. Vue du Lac Léman (1876), as well as ...

A "lost" Gustave Courbet painting, once believed to be a fake, has been authenticated by a French museum, artnet News reports. Called Vue du Lac Léman (1876), the 19th century Realist painter’s ...

An atmospheric Gustave Courbet landscape painting in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum is likely to have been looted by the Nazis in occupied France. The Art Newspaper can report that a restitution claim ...

After finally agreeing to teach painting, Gustave Courbet brought a cow – rather than a human – to model for his class. The French artist’s conviction that the "living art’’ he sought to paint ...

London (AFP) – A British university museum has agreed to return a 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, which was seized by the Nazis, to the descendants of its original Jewish owner ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet wrote to his parents in 1852. He was in his early ...