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Gustave Courbet
(1819 - 1877)



"Show me an angel and I will paint one."

Gustave Courbet
Self-Portrait

French painter, largely self-taught, he became a leader of the 19th-century realist school of painting, he favoured an unidealized choice of subject-matter and was controversial both as an artist and as a public figure.
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