This artist ruffled feathers by using the scale of a history painting to depict a funeral in a small French town.
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]