Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet was a French Realist painter who rejected the idealized subjects favored by the academies in favor of ordinary people and everyday life, painted at full scale and with unflinching honesty. He was a central, often controversial figure in mid-nineteenth-century French art, and his bluntness shaped Realism as a movement.

This collection includes Woman with a Parrot, Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, and Young Ladies of the Village. Every canvas is made to order and labeled with its size against the original painting's real dimensions, so the scale is never a guess.