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Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

  • News Items : Geneva Purchases a Panorama des Alpes by Gustave Courbet 20/05/2014

    The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva recently purchased a large painting by Gustave Courbet representing a Panorama des Alpes, produced late in his life after his exile in Switzerland. The view showing the mountain ranges of the Dents du Midi (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : After Caravaggio and Leonardo, Courbet 10/02/2013

    Once again, an extraordinary "rediscovery" of an art work is creating sensational headlines and is spreading like wildfire in the media which has decidedly still not learned its lesson. The joke here is that the real findings, that of a sublime (...)

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  • News Items : The Two Ivories for the Descent from the Cross finally Acquired by the Louvre 04/02/2013

    We had already known for several weeks that the fundraising drive launched by the Louvre for the acquisition of the ivory statues, the Synagogue and Saint John, completing a 13th century Descent from the Cross, had reached its goal. In order not (...)

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  • News Items : An Update for the Musée Départemental Gustave Courbet in Ornans 04/09/2012

    Reopened in 2011 after a three year renovation, the Musée Courbet in Ornans launched a fundraising drive a few weeks ago to purchase a painting by the artist representing The Oak at Flagey from a Japanese collector, Michimasa Murauchi. The price (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Courbet / Proudhon, l’art et le peuple 17/06/2010

    The buildings which have been preserved and restored at the Saline Royale in Arc-et-Senans (Doubs) by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux alone are worth a visit. The disposition of different architectural styles, the semi-circle formed by the various (...)

    Lire la suite par Dominique Lobstein

  • News Items : The Courbet exhibition in Montpellier 29/06/2008

    The same exhibition can take on another look when it travels to a new location. This is certainly the case for the Courbet retrospective which has just started at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier after stopovers in Paris and New York (not (...)

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