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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

She was still under the spell of realism, the gritty style pioneered by Gustave Courbet.

From Washington Post