Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable
Gustave Courbet
1857
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
58 1/2 x 42 in. (148.6 x 106.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, 1919
Accession Number
19.84
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About the Artist
Gustave Courbet · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who revolutionized 19th-century art as the founding figure of the Realism movement. Born in Ornans, a small town in the Doubs region of France, Courbet came from a prosperous farming family with anti-monarchical roots—his maternal grandfather had participated in the French Revolution. This background shaped his lifelong commitment to dep...