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 … ...

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 ...

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 ...

Video. 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.