The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to announce that it has recently received the generous gift of a major landscape work by the artist Gustave Courbet titled Le Grand Pont (1864). This ...

On the occasion of the official tribute paid to Sylvain Amic, President of the Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, the Musée d’Orsay and Qatar Museums announced an exceptional agreement to loan Gustave ...

Know-your-client rules are not just bureaucratic boxes to tick. In some art trade transactions they can be the difference between sniffing out a fraudster and losing possession of, say, an early ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

The Musée du Vieux Granville in Normandy, France has authenticated a work by Realist master Gustave Courbet that has been languishing in its archives since 1945. Vue du Lac Léman (1876), as well as ...

Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...

A "lost" Gustave Courbet painting, once believed to be a fake, has been authenticated by a French museum, artnet News reports. Called Vue du Lac Léman (1876), the 19th century Realist painter’s ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet wrote to his parents in 1852. He was in his early ...