Courbet
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"Courbet deliberately created the painting for the private sphere; in the 19th century, a public presentation would have been unthinkable," says the exhibition notes.
From Barron's
Then in the fall of 2024, a colleague of Matthiesen heard through a contact at Sotheby’s in New York that Landau was showing his new Courbet to friends as the latest addition to his collection.
Featured in the bedroom: a rustic tableau by the famed 19th-century realist Gustave Courbet.
From Seattle Times
The Fitzwilliam Museum, in Britain, is expected to return a painting by Gustave Courbet to the heirs of a Jewish engineer who fled Paris before the Nazi occupation of France.
From New York Times
The heirs believe the Courbet was likely originally acquired by Robert Bing’s maternal grandmother who was an art collector and had been mentioned in correspondence by Courbet.
From New York Times
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