Born: 10-Jun-1819
Birthplace: Ornans, France
Died: 31-Dec-1877
Location of death: La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Cause of death: Liver Failure

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Painter

Nationality: France
Executive summary: French Realist painter

Father: Eléonor-Régis Jean Joseph Sanislas Courbet (farmer)
Mother: Sylvie Oudot Courbet
Sister: Zoé
Sister: Zélie
Sister: Juliette

    University: Royal College, Besançon, France

    Destruction of Property Vendôme Column (1871)
    Hemorrhoid Operation Neuilly, France (2-Mar-1872)
    Exiled self-imposed, to Switzerland (23-Jul-1873)
    Armory Show
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Hemorrhoids

Is the subject of books:
Gustave Courbet, Peintre, 1906, BY: Georges Riat
Gustave Courbet, 1951, BY: Gerstle Mack
Gustave Courbet: A Study of Style and Society, 1976, BY: Linda Nochlin
Gustave Courbet, 1993, BY: Sarah Faunce
Courbet, 1997, BY: James H. Rubin

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