Artists

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  The Source $AU 245.42 ~ 1,027.61
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  Woman with a Parrot $AU 233.96 ~ 1,937.82
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  The Shaded Stream $AU 192.18 ~ 721.39
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  The Artist's Studio $AU 251.88 ~ 17,251.69
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  The Wrestlers $AU 234.95 ~ 16,734.55
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  Sunset on Lake Leman $AU 206.89 ~ 851.72
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  Flowering Apple Tree Branch $AU 200.27 ~ 793.00

Started teaching himself to paint in 1840 by copying works by Diego Velazquez, Franz Hals and Rembrandt as well as painting from nature. During this period he developed a characteristic style involving a rough manner of applying his paint. Influenced by his socialist friend Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Courbet tried to achieve a realistic manner of painting that at the same time reflected the practical spirit of his time. It is for this reason that he commonly painted scenes depicting the everyday life of farmers and workers in an objective and unsentimental way. These subjects had not been acceptable before then, so in choosing them he went against the Academy and the "Official Style" of painting historical paintings, while at the same time becoming the founder of Realism. Despite much criticism he began to have some success after 1850, as his repeated participation in the Paris Salons showed. He also received great recognition in Germany, which he visited several times. In 1871 he became a member of the Paris Commune, was arrested upon its defeat, and fled to Switzerland in 1873. Courbet's painting had a great influence on other artists, particularly the Impressionists. His oeuvre includes still lifes, landscapes, portraits, nudes and animal pictures. The artist's works include The Winnowers, 1853, Hello or Goodbye M. Courbet Musee Fabre, Montpellier; 1854 and The Young Woman of The Seine, 1856 Musee du Petit Palais, Paris.