Definition of Gustave Courbet

1. Noun. French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877).

Exact synonyms: Courbet
Generic synonyms: Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gustave Courbet

Gurkhas
Gurmukhi
Guru Granth Sahib
Guru Nanak
Gus
Gusii
Gussenbauer's suture
Gustav
Gustav Hertz
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Gustav Theodor Fechner
Gustave
Gustave Courbet (current term)
Gustave Flaubert
Gustavus
Gustavus Adolphus
Gustavus Franklin Swift
Gustavus I
Gustavus II
Gustavus V
Gutenberg
Gutenbergian
Guthrie
Guthrie test
Gutierrezia
Gutierrezia microcephala

Literary usage of Gustave Courbet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Modern Painting by RICHARD. MUTHER (1907)
"Gustave Courbet. L'Art. Gustave Courbet, the strong son of Franche-Comte, was born in 1819, in Ornans, a little town near ..."

2. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"... Gustave Courbet THE threads that started from Millet have lured us further afield than the course of our history allows, and we have been drawn into a ..."

3. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"... Gustave Courbet THE threads that started from Millet have lured us further afield than the course of our history allows, and we have been drawn into a ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"(London, 1800) : [sham, "Gustave Courbet," in Van Dyke's Modern French Masters ... Gustave Courbet (Paris, 1878) ; and La Vérité sur Courbet (Paris, 1879). ..."

5. Catalogue of Paintings by Bryson Burroughs (1914)
"Signed: Gustave Courbet. Gift of Mrs. Mary Goldenberg, 1899. €83-2 SNOW SCENE. ... Signed: 66-Gustave Courbet. Lent anonymously, 1909. COUTURE, THOMAS. ..."

6. Art and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
""About 1850 Gustave Courbet was at the height of his fame, and also of his abuse, for all pioneers are abused by the comfortable orthodox, always have been, ..."

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