GUSTAVE COURBET – Realist French Painter (HD)

Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! The self-proclaimed “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” Gustave Courbet created a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1850 to 1851. He exhibited a group of paintings set in his native Ornans, a village in the Franche-Comté in eastern France. These works, including The Stonebreakers, completed between 1849 and 1850, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850. Unfortunately, it was destroyed during World War II. A Burial at Ornans, also completed between 1849 and 1850 was exhibited at the Musèe d’Orsay in Paris. This painting challenged convention by rendering scenes from daily life on the large scale previously reserved for history painting and in an emphatically realistic style.