Courbet

American  

[koor-be] / kurˈbɛ /

noun

1. Gustave 1819–77, French painter.

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Courbet British  

/ kurbɛ /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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 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.

From BBC

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

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