After a seven-year tug of war, a French court has ruled that Facebook was wrong to close the social media account of educator Frédéric Durand without warning after he posted an image of Gustave ...

The mystery behind one of the most controversial paintings in art history may have just been solved. According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The Origin ...

Gustave Courbet’s infamous “The Origin of the World,” an intimate portrait of a female model’s nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866. Even more shocking, though, ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the work with ...

Art theft and looting occurred on a massive scale during World War II. It all started with Adolf Hitler’s unsuccessful career as an artist. The Glasgow Boys were a group of Scottish Impressionists who ...

After finally agreeing to teach painting, Gustave Courbet brought a cow – rather than a human – to model for his class. The French artist’s conviction that the "living art’’ he sought to paint ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet wrote to his parents in 1852. He was in his early ...

A panel has recommended that a British museum return a landscape painting by Gustave Courbet to heirs of a Jewish engineer who joined the French Resistance. By Julia Jacobs Shortly before the Nazi ...

Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval. Gustave ...

Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the women ...

In The Meeting, Gustave Courbet depicts his chance encounter with a wealthy patron, Alfred Bruyas, on a dirt road in the open countryside. Also called Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, the scene is a study in ...