Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Gustave Courbet
Born: June 10, 1819
Died: December 31, 1877 (aged 58)
Bio: Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
Known for:
- A Burial At Ornans (1850)
- L'Origine du monde (1866)
- The Stone Breakers (1849)
- The Painter's Studio (1855)
- El desesperado (1845)