The new Musée Corbet in Ornans, France, artfully traces Gustave Courbet's path from ambitious provincial to renegade Parisian luminary to the political outcast he became in his final years.

BEFORE we had Madonna, France had Gustave Courbet – master chameleon and press manipulator extraordinaire. The 19th-century painter not only survived scandals, he also stoked them: depicting … ...

Musée d'Orsay is restoring Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans live. Art lovers can watch the process, led by Cinzia Pasquali, until mid-2026. View on euronews ...

On Friday, a French appeals court ruled Facebook can indeed be sued over its decision to remove the account of a user who posted a picture of Gustave Courbet’s 1866 L'Origine du monde (The ...

It’s odd to think of James McNeill Whistler, of Lowell, as a protégé of Gustave Courbet, of Ornans. But for a little while, he was. An Irishwoman, Jo Hiffernan, came between them. But in the ...

Two women were arrested by French police on Monday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet, a provocative painting centered on a nude ...

On May 29, Deborah de Robertis, a performance artist from Luxembourg, strutted into Paris'Museé d'Orsayin a gold, sequined dress, plopped down in front of Gustave Courbet's Origin of the World ...

An art restorer works on Gustave Courbet’s painting titled A Burial at Ornans at the Orsay Museum. The painting had not undergone any significant restoration for at least half a century.

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 ...