Courbet

[koor-be]

noun

1. Gustave 1819–77, French painter.

Courbet

/ kurbɛ /

noun

1. Gustave (ɡystav). 1819–77, French painter, a leader of the realist movement; noted for his depiction of contemporary life

Example Sentences

Featured in the bedroom: a rustic tableau by the famed 19th-century realist Gustave Courbet.

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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.

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The oil landscape by French realist Gustave Courbet was seized from Robert Bing in occupied Paris in 1941 because he was a Jew, a government panel found.

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Stolen painting: He lost a Courbet when he fled the Nazis.

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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.

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