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Lisa Duffy-Zeballos

Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2007;9(3):224-225.

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As one of the leading painters of the French Realist style, Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) had an uncompromising vision of modern life that challenged established conventions of the artistic subject. Courbet was born in the small rural town of Ornans, France, in the region of Franche-Comté. The rugged scenery of his native country remained an important place in his artistic imagination and served as the backdrop for some of his most important compositions. Courbet began his artistic career in 1831; he worked in a variety of artistic studios and private academies in Ornans and later in Paris. Inspired by the Dutch paintings he encountered in Parisian collections, Courbet traveled to the Netherlands in 1846 and assimilated the broad painterly manner of Rembrandt and Hals, incorporating their liberal application of paint and use of the palette knife to produce dramatic chiaroscuro effects in his own works. Courbet was impressed by . . . [Full Text of this Article]