at right a lively, spirited crowd of his friends admires his work.
As radical in politics as he was in painting, he was placed in charge of all art museums under the revolutionary 1871 Commune of Paris and saved the city's collections from looting mobs. However, he was accused of allowing the destruction of Napoleon's triumphal column in the Place de Vendtme and subsequently fled to Vevey, Switzerland, where he continued to paint until his death. Works include a depiction of a trout, and Woman with a Parrot. In a painting subtitled "A True Allegory Concerning Seven Years of My Artistic Life," he sits painting a landscape center stage, attended by a small boy, a dog, and a voluptuous female nude; at left a listless, bored group ignores him; at right a lively, spirited crowd of his friends admires his work. FTP, identify this realist French painter best known for The Artist's Studio, The Burial at Ornans and The Stonebreakers.
As radical in politics as he was in painting, he was placed in charge of all art museums under the revolutionary 1871 Commune of Paris and saved the city's collections from looting mobs.
Gustave Courbet