Courbet, Gustave

(6/10/1819 Ornans- 12/31/1877 La Tour de Peilz) (France)

   Painter, graphic artist, art theorist, politician, and philosopher. Most significant of the Realist school of the mid-19th century. Studied with Pere Baud at the Petit Seminaire, then with A. Fla-geoulot, and in Paris with C. de Steuben. Reproductions: Exposure; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 53 . [Girl putting on stockings]; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 52 [B]. Origin of the world; 1866; oil; Lucie-Smith, 1972: pp. 48-49 / Smith, 1974: p. 56 [B] / Tilly, 1986: p. 202 [C] / Webb, 1975: p. 166 [B] / Bentley, 1984: 112 [C] / Wallace 2007: p. 155 [C]. Laziness and sensuality or The Sleep or Two friends; 1866; oil; Webb, 1975: p. 165 [B] / Loren-zoni, 1984b: p. 46 [C] / Smith, 1974: p. 57 [C] / Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 133 [C] / Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 54 [B] / Lucie-Smith 1997: p. 126 [C]; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: pp. 96-97 [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 4: pp. 62-67; DoA vol. 8: pp. 5061; Jean-Jacques Fernier, Les yeux les plus secrets: Gustave Courbet, la naissance du monde, 1866; Andre Masson, 56 dessins erotiques de 1921 a 1970; Le roman de Mathilde, corresepondance avec Courbet1873 (Ornans: Musee Gustave Courbet, 1991), 147 p., ill.; Valerie Innella, "Gustave Courbet: scandalous realism in Second Empire France" (Thesis, Bloomsburg University, 1997), 42 leaves, ill.; Gunter Metken, Gustave Courbet, der Ursprung der Welt: ein Lust-Stuck (Munich: Prestel, 1997), 79 p., ill. (some col.); Beatrice Needham, "Courbet's Baigneuses and the rhetorical feminine image," in Woman as sex object: studies in erotic art, 1730—1970, edited by T. Hess and L. Nochlin (New York: Newsweek, 1972), pp. 80-89; ThB VII 1912: p. 577.