Gustave Courbet: Born: 1819, Ornans, France. He led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.

Courbet learned mainly from copying the earlier masters.

His, "The After-dinner at Ornans", won a gold medal in the Salon of 1849.

Courbet painted mainly landscapes and portraits.

Coubet later became in the politics of the time and was imprisoned.

In 1873, he fled to Vevey, Switzerland.

Died in 1877. Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes.



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