Gustave Courbet [SEP] date of birth
Gustave Courbet
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. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements
to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier. The date perhaps most commonly identified as marking the birth of modern art is 1863, the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" in the "Salon des Refusés" in Paris. Earlier dates have also been proposed, among them 1855 (the year Gustave Courbet exhibited "The Artist's Studio") and 1784 (the year Jacques-Louis David completed his painting "The Oath of