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Courbet

By Patrick Bade

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Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions his spirit of revolt manifested itself. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. Already in his country home he had had a little instruction in painting, and preferred to study the masterpieces of the Louvre. At first his pictures were not sufficiently distinctive to arouse any opposition, and were admitted to the Salon. Then followed the Funeral at Ornans, which the critics violently assailed: “A masquerade funeral, six metres long, in which there is more to laugh at than to weep over.” Indeed, the real offence of Courbet’s pictures was that they represented live flesh and blood. They depicted men and women as they really are and realistically doing the business in which they are engaged. His figures were not men and women deprived of personality and idealised into a type, posed in positions that will decorate the canvas. He advocated painting things as they are, and proclaimed that la vérité vraie must be the aim of the artist. So at the Universal Exposition of 1855 he withdrew his pictures from the exhibition grounds and set them in a wooden booth, just outside the entrance. Over the booth he posted a sign with large lettering. It read, simply: “Courbet – Realist.” Like every revolutionary, he was an extremist. He ignored the fact that to every artist the truth of nature appears under a different guise according to his way of seeing and experiencing. Instead, he adhered to the notion that art is only a copying of nature and not a matter also of selection and arrangement. In his contempt for prettiness Courbet often chose subjects which may fairly be called ugly. But that he also had a sense of beauty may be seen in his landscapes. That sense, mingled with his capacity for deep emotion, appears in his marines – these last being his most impressive work. Moreover, in all his works, whether attractive or not to the observer, he proved himself a powerful painter, painting in a broad, free manner, with a fine feeling for colour, and with a firmness of pigment that made all his representations very real and stirring.

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Length54 mins

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1Introduction

62Portrait of Laure Borreau

2Biography

63View of Saintes

3Portrait of a Young Woman

64The Source of the Loue

4Portrait of the Artist known as The Desperate

65Reflexion or Meditation

5Man Filled with Fear

66The Bridge

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6The Draughts Players

67The Source of the Loue

7Guitarrero

68The Cave de la Loue

8Woman Sleeping next to a Stream

69The Oak Tree of Flagey, also called Oak Tree of Vercingetorix

9Lovers in the Country

70The Gour de Conche

10Self-Portrait with Black Dog

71Crumbling Rocks

11The Pirate Held Prisoner by the Dey of Algiers

72The Sarrazine Cave

12Loth and his Daughters

73The Lock of the Loue

13The Hammock

74Three English Girls at the Window

14Portrait of the Artist known as The Wounded Man

75The Somnambulist

15Portrait of Juliette Courbet

76The Girl with the Seagulls, Trouville

16Portrait of the artist or The Man with Leather Belt

77The Beach at Trouville at Low Tide

17The Cellist

78The Covered Stream or The Stream of the Black Well

18Portrait of Baudelaire

79Portrait of the Countess Palma Karoly

19Self-Portrait: Man with Pipe

80Fantastic View of Amorphous Rocks

20The Valley of the Loue in Stormy Weather

81Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his Children

21Portrait of Marc Trapadoux

82Fishing Boat

22Grape Harvest in Ornans at Roche du Mont

83Woman with a Parrot

23After Dinner at Ornans

84Marine

24The Stonebreakers

85Deer Reserve at Plaisir-Fontaine

25The Peasants of Flagey Returning from the Fair (Doubs)

86The Poor Village Lady, Ornans

26A Burial at Ornans

87The Ruse

27Dressing the Dead Girl

88Origin of the World

28White Bull and Blond Heifer

89Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl

29Study for The Young Ladies of the Village

90The Awakening

30The Young Ladies of the Village

91Sleep

31The Wrestlers

92Hunters in the Snow

32The Bathers

93Killing the Deer or Scene of a Hunt in the Snow

33The Sleeping Spinner

94Hunter on horseback

34Portrait of Alfred Bruyas

95Almsgiving from a Beggar in Ornans

35The Homecoming

96The Three Bathers

36The Encounter or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet

97Landscape with Snow

37The Spanish Lady

98The Woman in the Waves

38The Grain Sifters

99The Source

39The Painter&#x27;s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of my Artistic and Moral Life

100Portrait of Pierre Dupont

40Le Château d’Ornans

101Beach in Normandy

41Mother Grégoire

102The Rock of Hautepierre

42The Quarry

103The Black Well

43Study for one of the Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine

104The Cliff of Étretat after the Storm

44Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine

105The Wave

45Portrait of Mathilde Cuoq

106The Wave

46The Bridge at Ambressum

107The Stormy Sea

47The Hunting Lunch

108Still Life with Apples and Pomegranate

48The Lady of Frankfurt

109Still-life - Fruits

49Portrait of Madame Brayer

110Still Life - Apples

50The German Hunter

111Three Trouts from the Loue

51The Diligence in the Snow

112The Sea

52Flowers

113The Blue Source

53Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot

114Self-Portrait at Sainte-Pélagie

54The Springtime Rut or Battle of the Stags

115The Bridge of Fleurier

55Large Oak Trees by the waterside, Port-Berteau

116Portrait of Régis Courbet

56The Woods of Rochemont. The Round Dance of the Children

117The Vintager of Montreux

57The Trellis

118Chillon Castle

58Study for the Return of the Conference

119Sunset on Lake Leman

59Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau

120View of Lake Léman with a Cloudy Sky

60The Charente at Port-Berteau

121The Old Mill

61Still-life - Flowers

122Panorama of the Alps, La Dent du Midi

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