Discover sculptor, politician, painter Gustave Courbet

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: Courbet, Jean-Désiré-Gustave

Qualifications: sculptor, politician, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: French

Born: Ornans 1819-06-10

Deceased: La Tour-de-Peilz 1877-12-31

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Régis and Sylvie Oudot Courbet; his sisters Zoé, Zélie and Juliette, were his first models for drawing and painting

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

worked from 1871 with Cherubino Pata

This person/entity in other databases

24 hits in RKDimages as artist
112 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author
9 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Parijs 1840
Courbet settled in Paris in 1840
Normandie (regio) 1841
study trip through Normandy
Nederland 1846
visited in August 1846, at the invitation of the collector H.J. van Wisselingh, the Netherlands; visited a.o. Museum Steengracht [Museum Steengracht, Guestbook (1823-1854)]
1846
studied the paintings of Rembrandt and Frans Hals in the Rijksmuseum during his journey through the Netherlands (Schlesser, Le Journal de Courbet, 2007 (see: hits in RKDlibrary)
Duitsland 1846
Zwitserland 1846
Ornans
Montpellier
Frankfurt am Main 1858
Antwerpen (stad) 1861
Étretat 1865
Trouville-sur-Mer (Basse-Normandie) 1865
Deauville 1866
Honfleur 1850 - 1860
between 1850-1860 (Bergeret-Gourbin 2007)
Brussel 1869
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer 1867
Zwitserland 1873

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Gros, Jean-Antoine
Saur: Herbst 1837-1839 im Collège zu Besançon, Unterricht bei Charles-Antoine Flageoulot (1774-1840), einem Davis-Schüler, der an der dortigen KS lehrte.
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Dubois, Louis
Oller y Cestero, Francisco
Ranft, Richard
Weissbrod, Johan Baptist Gabriel Eduard
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Cecioni, Adriano
Kvapil, Charles
Burnitz, Peter
Erbslöh, Adolf
Feuerbach, Anselm
Göbel, Angilbert Wunibald
Perov, Vasili Grigorevich
Heisig, Bernhard
Rosseels, Jacques
Hodler, Ferdinand
Picasso, Pablo
Duveneck, Frank
Balande, Gaston
Fini, Léonor
Hollósy, Simon
Ceretti, Mino

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: flower piece, animal painting (genre), genre, coastal view, landscape (genre), nude figure, portrait, still life, fruit piece
maakte gebruik van fotografie (Hannavy 2008)

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Impressionism, Barbizon School

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 112 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Brun 1905-1917
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 7 (1912), p. 577-581
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 3, p. 219-223
Busse 1977 , p. 268
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 67
Pingeot et al. 1986 (sculpture française) , p. 354, 421
Leeman/Pennock 1996 , p. 139-148
Bavelaar 1998 , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 21 (1999), p. 567-574 (as: Courbet, Gustave (Jean-Désiré-Gustave ))
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 4, p. 115-118 (as: Courbet, Gustave pour Jean Désiré Gustave)
Heijbroek/Wouthuysen 1999 , p. 13 en passim
Reynaerts 2001 , p. 211en passim
Van Adrichem 2001 , p. 175 en passim
Broekhuizen et al. 2001 , B.M. van Broekhuizen, '"Filosofieren mit den Muskeln". Drie riten uit de mythologie van de wandeling', p. 161-188
Kraan 2002 , passim
Lees 2004 , passim
Delarue 2007 , p. 88-95
Hannavy 2008 , vol. 1, p. 341
Barrett 2010 , passim
Jonkman/Geudeker 2010 , p. 101 & passim
Petri 2011 , passim
Pludermacher 2011- , vol. 1, passim
Durand-Ruel 2014 , passim
Gahtan/Pegazzano 2018 , p. 103-113 (Chapter 7: 'The Courbet retrospective of 1881. Harbinger of the artist's first major monography and catalogue raisonné' by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu)
Epstein 2019 , p. 42-44

S.E.W. Roorda van Eysinga, 'Geridderde kunstenaars', Kunstkronijk NS. 12 (1871), p. 55-56 [Courbet gedecoreerd] [see also Kunstkronijk NS. 13 (1872), p. 80 concerning his lawsuit]
P. d'Albret, Ártistische Wanderungen durch Paris, III: Gustave Courbet’, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 11 (1876), p. 183-188; 209-213
K. Scheffler, 'Die Sammlung Alfred Cassirer', Kunst und Künstler 28 (1930), p. 450-460
D. Palazzoli, L. Carluccio, Combattimento per un'Immagine. Fotografi e Pittori (exh.cat. Turin 1973 ) (NFM)
H. Henkels, 'Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41 (1993), p. 155-295
P. B. Crapo, 'The problematics of artistic patronage under the Second Empire: Gustave Courbet's involved relations with the regime of Napoleon III', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 2 (1995), p. 240-261
P. Ten-Doesschate Chu, 'Courbet, Or not Courbet, that is the question', IFAR Journal dl. 7 (2001)1, p. 18-26
'The Most Erotic Artworks', Artnews 103, nr. 1 (januari 2004), p. 112-117
F. Suzman Jowell, 'Thoré-Bürger's art collection: ''a rather unusual gallery of bric-à-brac''', Simiolus 30 (2003), nr. 1/2, p. 54-119
T. Chang, 'Hats and Hierarchy in Gustave Courbet's "The Meeting"', The Art Bulletin 86 (2004), p. 719-730
A. Haudiquet, 'De Courbet à Matisse. La donation Senn-Foulds au musée Malraux du Havre', La Revue du Louvre, 2 april 2005, p. 22-26
A. Urraca, 'El sufrimento de España escondido en ''el taller del artista'' de Courbet', Goya 313-314 (2006), p. 283-288
J. Coignard, ''Et Courbet créa la femme', Connaissance des Arts, oktober 2007, p. 54-67
F. Zelger, 'Courbet: Un enterrement à Ornans - une nouvelle approche', in: Liber Veritatis. Mélanges en l'honneur du professeur Marcel G. Roethlisberger, Milaan 2007, p. 329-335
F. Prose, 'Behind the Green Veil. A Paean to Courbet's "Origin of the World" ', Modern painters, May 2008, p. 64-67
Shao-Chien Tseng, 'Contested terrain: Gustave Courbet's hunting scenes', The Art Bulletin, 90 (2008), p. 218-234
G. Jäger.: Fotoästhetik (1991) (NFM)
J. House, ''Realism' and French Painting in the Mid-Nineteenth Century', Van Gogh Studies 4 (2012), p. 182-194
D. Lobstein, 'Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) et l'iconographie dionysiaque', Les Cahiersd'Histoire de l'Art, 2016, no. 14, p. 96-101
S. Marchal, D. Stöppel, 'Kunsthistorische Quellenkritik versus wortgläubige Exegese? Courbets Briefe in der Diskussion', Kunstchronik 70 (2017), p. 226-231

Stephanie Marchal, dissertation in preparation, Universität Heidelberg [source: Kunstchronik 2005/8, p. 426]

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: archief Firma E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.
Archief en bibliotheek Theo en Nelly van Doesburg
Project: Dreaming of Holland
Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

Comment: there are also some portrait busts of his hand known

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.463
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.463a
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.463b
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.463c
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.5856

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