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Self-Portrait with Upraised Arm by Gustave Courbet

Self-Portrait with Upraised Arm

Gustave Courbet · 1835

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DETAILS
Artist
Gustave Courbet
Date
1835
Medium
Black and white chalk over graphite on papier bleuté, relined.
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
13 7/8 × 11 1/2 in. (35.2 × 29.2 cm)
Collection
Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
ART MOVEMENTS
NaturalismRealism
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Gustave Courbet

1819–1877 · France

Gustave Courbet, the defiant leader of the Realism movement, painted only what he could see, rejecting academic norms and Romanticism.

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Woman Feeding Chickens Same movement · Naturalism Woman Feeding Chickens Jean-François Millet · 1850 · Art Institute of Chicago The Estuary Farm Same era · 1820s–1850s The Estuary Farm Léon-Victor Dupré · 1831 · Art Institute of Chicago Souvenir of Tuscany Same movement · Naturalism Souvenir of Tuscany Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1845 · Art Institute of Chicago Disaster at Sea Same era · 1820s–1850s Disaster at Sea J. M. W. Turner · 1835 · National Gallery C'est peut-être bon...mais c'est égal..., from Les Hippophages, published in Le Charivari, October 23, 1856 Same movement · Naturalism C'est peut-être bon...mais c'est égal..., from Les Hippophages, published in Le Charivari, October 23, 1856 Honoré Daumier · 1856 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard Same era · 1820s–1850s Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard Eugène Delacroix · 1839 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre The Virgin Adoring the Host Same era · 1820s–1850s The Virgin Adoring the Host Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1841 · Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The Fortune Teller (La Bonne Aventure) Same era · 1820s–1850s The Fortune Teller (La Bonne Aventure) Jacques-Louis David · 1824 · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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