Courbet

[ koor-be ]

/ kurˈbɛ /

Gus·tave

[gys-tav] /güsˈtav/,1819–77, French painter.

Example sentences from the Web for courbet

Courbet learned in his passage that in adaptation is the confession of sterility.

Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning |Willard Huntington Wright
Courbet did little without it, and Manet brightened it only with occasional flashes of colour.

Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning |Willard Huntington Wright
He never execrated Courbet and denounced ce damn Ralisme so violently as in the autumn of 1867.

The Life of James McNeill Whistler |Elizabeth Robins Pennell
He is represented in the background of several of Courbet's pictures.

Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. |Various

He has a little of Courbet's sense of the real, and none whatever of his sense of the imaginative.

Adventures in the Arts |Marsden Hartley

Courbet

/ (French kurbɛ) /

Gustave (ɡystav). 1819–77, French painter, a leader of the realist movement; noted for his depiction of contemporary life