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Gustave Courbet Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Gustave Courbet at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Bather Sleeping by a Brook, 1845
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Still Life of Flowers, 1863 Reclining Woman, ca.1865-66 Landscape with a Dead Horse, 1850s
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Grotto of Sarrazine near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 3 works online by Courbet
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) Many works on paper online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Gust of Wind, ca.1865
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The Meeting or Good Day, Monsieur Courbet, 1854
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The Beach at Palavas, 1854
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Study for Girls on the banks of the Seine (Summer)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French) A total of 8 works displayed over 2 pages of search results
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany The Wave
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Roe Deer in the Snow
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Source of the Loue, ca.1864
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Castle of Chillon, Evening
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Landscape with stag
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research Woman Painted at Palavas, 1854
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK View at Ornans
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK Eternity
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands The Wave
Chateau Musée, Boulogne-sur-mer, France (in French) Marée montante (Rising Tide)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts See this page and also "Courbet in Montpelier"
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland Le bord de mer à Palavas, 1854
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin La prison près du lac
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Coast Scene - Approaching Storm, ca.1867
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "C"
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (mostly in German)
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Scotland Winter at Ornans
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario Landscape at Ornans, 1874
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York The Stonebreaker
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Portrait of Clement Laurier
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 3 works online
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France Le Ruisseau du Puits Noir, ca.1865
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French) Les Paysans de Flagey
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French) Le cerf
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French) Coucher de soleil, 1874
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy La prison pre du lac (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Head of a Girl
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 2 works online
National Museum of Art of Romania Winter Landscape
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo 5 works online
National Museums Liverpool, UK Low Tide at Trouville, ca.1865
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Three Young Englishwomen by a Window, 1865
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Gorge in a Forest (The Black Well), ca.1865
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland The Hammock, 1844
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French) L'Après-dînée à Ornans
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art The Wave, ca.1871
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Beach at Dieppe, 1865-70
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona La Vague (The Wave), 1870
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French) La signora Adela Guerrero, danseuse espagnole Les sources de la Loue
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri 3 paintings online
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Preparation of the Dead Girl, ca.1850-55
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark The Ruse, 1866
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam View of the Mediterranean at Maguelonne, 1858
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut Self-Portrait, black chalk drawing
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) Meeresstrand, 1865
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) Schloß Chillon, 1873
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Woman with a Cat, 1864
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - Provenance Research Le Grand Pont, 1864
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 5 works online when last checked
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gustave Courbet Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine The Gust of Wind, ca.1865
ARTnews "The Mysterious Journey of Courbet's Femme nue couchée"
Qui est Gustave Courbet? (Who is Gustave Courbet?) (in French) Article in French with links to many paintings
The Art Story
The New York Observer "In the Drawing Room At the Metropolitan, It's Courbet at 21", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "The 'Later' Courbet, Master of Land, Sea, In Stunning Exhibit", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Salander-O'Reilly Mounts Incredible Courbet Show", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker "The Most Arrogant Man in France", 2007 book review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker "Gustave Courbet retrospective at the Met", brief 2008 review by Peter Schjeldahl
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Courbet's Realism
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Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution
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Courbet (Art and Ideas)
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Masters of Art: Courbet
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