He had acquired the painting a decade earlier, in 1947. Whitney brought 55 other paintings to Winfield House, including works by Gustave Courbet, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and Henri Matisse.

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.

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.

Watch the live restoration of Courbet's masterpiece at Musée d'Orsay Musée d'Orsay is restoring Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans live. Art lovers can watch the process, led by Cinzia ...

Restoratioin of Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans (1849–50) at Musée d’Orsay. Photo: Thibaud Moritz / AFP via Getty Images. There is, by the museum’s own admission, much to address.

The galleries are arranged semi-chronologically starting with his home: the council flat he lived in with Trojan in East London, decorated with the infamous Star Trek wallpaper. Alongside are his ...

Gustave Courbet’s immense painting A Burial at Ornans (1849-50), measuring more than six metres long, is undergoing an ambitious treatment that includes investigating folds of canvas currently ...

As an example of past efforts, the Art Institute pointed to Gustave Courbet’s landscape “The Rock of Hautepierre” (ca. 1869), which it purchased in 1967.

A top French museum has filed a police complaint after two women spray-painted a famous 19th-century painting by Gustave Courbet which it had loaned to another gallery, official said Friday.

A mural by Paul Cezanne has been discovered at the artist's family home, Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, in Aix-en-Provence, France. The previously unknown large-scale artwork by the great Post ...

A mural by Paul Cezanne has been discovered at the artist's family home, Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, in Aix-en-Provence, France. The previously unknown large-scale artwork by the great ...