This artist used a dark blue velvet curtain as the background of a painting that includes a broken pearl necklace and a discarded hairpin, in case it wasn't clear enough that its nude subjects just had sex. This artist's painting of stumbling drunken priests riding a donkey, Return from the Conference, was rejected from even the Salon de Refusés. He painted a man with a guitar and knife at his feet, holding a large gun between his legs, in a canvas at whose center is a sleeping (*) cat and a boy looking up in wonder at a nude model. The worst artistic casualty of the Dresden bombing was his painting of two men in shabby clothes breaking rocks. This artist ruffled feathers by using the scale 
This artist used a dark blue velvet curtain as the background of a painting that includes a broken pearl necklace and a discarded hairpin, in case it wasn't clear enough that its nude subjects just had sex. This artist's painting of stumbling drunken priests riding a donkey, Return from the Conference, was rejected from even the Salon de Refusés. He painted a man with a guitar and knife at his feet, holding a large gun between his legs, in a canvas at whose center is a sleeping (*) cat and a boy looking up in wonder at a nude model. The worst artistic casualty of the Dresden bombing was his painting of two men in shabby clothes breaking rocks. This artist ruffled feathers by using the scale of a history painting to depict a funeral in a small French town. For 10 points, name this French artist of A Burial at Ornans.
This artist used a dark blue velvet curtain as the background of a painting that includes a broken pearl necklace and a discarded hairpin, in case it wasn't clear enough that its nude subjects just had sex.
Gustave Courbet [or Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet]