Tag: Gustave Courbet
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27 Works, Today, June 10th. is Gustave Courbet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #158
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819–31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists… Please follow link for full post
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #89
Jack Laycox, (1921 – 1984 San Francisco, CA) “Beach at Honfleur”, France Watercolor on Arches paper 22.25″ H x 29.5″ W Private collection Honfleur is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the…