The Gust of Wind
Gustave Courbet · 1865
Gustave Courbet
French · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet 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. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
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A selection of 18 works, free to stream.
The Gust of Wind
Gustave Courbet · 1865
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Femme couchée
Gustave Courbet · 1860
State Hermitage Museum
Untitled
Gustave Courbet · 1860
Upper Belvedere
Landscape Near Ornans
Gustave Courbet · 1864
Toledo Museum of Art
Untitled
Gustave Courbet · 1850
Wawel Castle
Standing Female Nude
Gustave Courbet · 1849
Getty Center
Head of a Sleeping Bacchante
Gustave Courbet · 1849
Getty Center
Trellis
Gustave Courbet · 1862
Toledo Museum of Art
The Painter's Studio
Gustave Courbet · 1850
Musée d'Orsay
The Wounded Man
Gustave Courbet · 1844
Musée d'Orsay
L'Origine du monde
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Musée d'Orsay
A Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet · 1849–1850
Femme nue couchée
Gustave Courbet · 1862
After Dinner at Ornans
Gustave Courbet · 1848
The Hunt Breakfast
Gustave Courbet · 1858
Femme nue au chien
Gustave Courbet · 1861
The Black Rocks at Trouville
Gustave Courbet
National Gallery of Art
La Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre
Gustave Courbet
National Gallery of Art
Works worth knowing
4 of Gustave Courbet's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
The Gust of Wind
Gustave Courbet · 1865
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Gust of Wind is an oil-on-canvas painting created by Gustave Courbet circa 1865. It is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Gust of Wind has been described as having "powerful diagonals".
The Painter's Studio
Gustave Courbet · 1850
Musée d'Orsay
The Painter's Studio is an 1855 oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Courbet. It is located in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. Courbet painted The Painter's Studio in Ornans, France in 1855.
The Wounded Man
Gustave Courbet · 1844
Musée d'Orsay
The Wounded Man is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait created between 1844 and 1854 by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet. In it, Courbet depicts himself in a romantic theme as a suffering, heroic man. Originally, the composition featured a woman leaning on the artist's shoulder.
L'Origine du monde
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Musée d'Orsay
L'Origine du monde is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet in 1866. It is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked woman, lying on a bed with legs spread. Art historians have speculated for years that Courbet's model for L'Origine du monde was his favourite model, Joanna Hiffernan, also known as Jo.
Where the work hangs
The museums that hold it, and their visitor guides.
National Gallery of Art
6 in the archive · Washington, D.C.
Musée d'Orsay
4 in the archive · Paris
Toledo Museum of Art
2 in the archive · Toledo
Getty Center
2 in the archive · Los Angeles
State Hermitage Museum
1 in the archive · Saint Petersburg
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1 in the archive · Houston
Wawel Castle
1 in the archive · Kraków
Upper Belvedere
1 in the archive · Vienna
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