The controversial French painter, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
The Burial At Ornans, one of Courbet’s most important works, records the funeral of his grand uncle which he attended in September 1848.
People who attended the funeral were the models for the painting. Courbet painted “the very people who had been [...]
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