Mère Grégoire
Gustave Courbet · 1855, reworked 1857–59 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Mère Grégoire is a public-domain painting by Gustave Courbet, dated 1855, reworked 1857–59. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Mère Grégoire” (1855, reworked 1857–59) gives an ordinary subject — labor, a funeral, or a local landscape — the size once reserved for history painting.
About the artist
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French Realist who painted stone breakers, funerals, and the landscape of his home region at the scale once reserved for history painting.
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