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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 2,040,992 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Gustave Courbet is the 36th most popular painter (up from 44th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from France (up from 91st in 2019) and the 10th 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 36 out of 1,421. Before him are Edgar Degas, Jacques-Louis David, Jan van Eyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Amedeo Modigliani, and Marc Chagall. After him are Giotto, Joan Miró, Tintoretto, René Magritte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Masaccio.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Courbet ranks 79 out of 6,011. Before him are Henri Bergson (1859), Louis de Funès (1914), Henry III of France (1551), Tacitus (54), Pope Urban II (1042), and Marquis de Sade (1740). After him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Louis the Pious (778), Caracalla (188), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Edward IV of England (1442), and Louis Philippe I (1773).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Courbet ranks 10. Before him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Édouard Manet (1832), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780). After him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), Georges Seurat (1859), and Jean-François Millet (1814).

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