Bonjour Monsieur Courbet

Date: 1854
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France

The painting depicts three men standing on a country road, looking like travellers or pilgrims. In the centre stands a man dressed in an accentuated green coat, holding a walking stick and wearing a gloved hand, with two men talking, one of them wrapped in a brown coat, the other with a bundle slung over his shoulder. In the background is a dog leading another figure and a wider landscape.

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Courbet painted picture Bonjour Monsieur Courbet in 1854. Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is landscape. This art piece is located in Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877). French painter regarded as a leading figure of French realism of the 19th century. In 1839, he went to study law in Paris, but instead devoted himself to painting (he copied works by Spanish, Venetian and Dutch masters). His first success was in the Salon in 1849, when he received the gold medal for his painting Afternoon in Ornans. Courbet was inspired by Dutch masters ( Rembrandt, Hals and others). His influence was also Giorgione and Tizian. In the beginning, he pursued the track of austere rules tied to academicism that, for his open-minded nature, was too strict. He therefore painted according to the romanticists (Delacroix and Géricault). With the painting Funeral in Ornans, in which he captured his grandfather’s funeral, he distanced himself from romanticism and has since been considered a painter of realism.