Portrait of Gustave Courbet
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 13 7/8 in. (44.2 × 35.2 cm) Plate: 6 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (15.6 × 11.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.165
Tags
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About the Artist
Gustave Courbet|Marcellin Desboutin · 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...