Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

The painter's studio will be open to the public from Saturday, with reservations. It was bought by the Doubs departmental council, which had begun its restoration in 2019, and is the only building decorated with murals by the artist. The Courbet Museum in Ornans is also presenting "Un atelier à soi" until 27 March.

Starting on October 23, 2023, a selection of work from the Parisian institution, which will be closed for renovations next fall, will go on display at the Gustave Courbet Museum in Ornans. The Musée Delacroix will reopen in March 2024, with a new exhibition layout.

The Académie des Beaux-Arts has vehemently protested social media’s censorship of works that display nudity. Citing the recent censorship of Gustave Courbet’s Origin of the World and Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, they said such algorithmic bias “considerably” prevents “the promotion of art”.

Two walking panthers by Rembrandt Bugatti on the alert at Rouillac's highly popular Garden Party pounced on €1,364,000, posting the auction house's thirteenth million-plus bid on the way.

The works assembled by Nelly Kaplan and Claude Makovski left their flagship for other climes under the aegis of a red sphinx.

This 1920 painting of Adrienne De Zutter illustrates the intersecting cultures that shaped the work of this unique painter.

A group of beautiful old photographs from an estate in Touraine, one of the traditional departments of France, will be auctioned off, starting with proofs by Gustave Le Gray.

If this face looks familiar, it's no wonder. Our drawing is a study Gustav Klimt made for his painted portrait of Fritza Riedler at Vienna’s Belvedere Museum.

Italian prosecutors have decided to drop charges against three people suspected of being involved in the 1997 theft of Portrait of a Lady, valued at $66 million, and taken from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in northern Italy. It will likely remain a cold case. (Arts Culture & Style)

With this refined gouache, the French painter renews the representation of one of the Bible's major protagonists.