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Gustave Courbet

1819 - 1877

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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: KOOR-bay, US: koor-BAY, French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Courbet has received more than 2,161,459 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Gustave Courbet is the 40th most popular painter (down from 36th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from France (down from 79th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Painter.

Gustave Courbet is most famous for his realistic paintings of peasants and other working-class people.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gustave Courbet ranks 40 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Giotto, Joan Miró, René Magritte, and Masaccio. After him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Tintoretto, Nicolas Poussin, Anthony van Dyck, and Paolo Veronese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Gustave Courbet ranks 2. Before him is Queen Victoria. After him are Jacques Offenbach, Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Albert, Prince Consort, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Maria II of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1877, Gustave Courbet ranks 1. After him are Crazy Horse, Brigham Young, Saigō Takamori, Adolphe Thiers, Urbain Le Verrier, Henry Fox Talbot, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Sophie of Württemberg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Courbet ranks 88 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Louis XVII of France (1785), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), and Pope Urban II (1042). After him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), George Sand (1804), and Marquis de Sade (1740).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Courbet ranks 11. Before him are Eugène Delacroix (1798), Édouard Manet (1832), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841). After him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), and Georges Seurat (1859).

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