Gustave Courbet, 1861 - Charles Switzerland - fine art print

(© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Suisse, a former artist’s model, established an informal—and extremely liberal—art school in Paris which the young Courbet attended in the mid-1840s. By the time of this portrait, dated to 1861, Manet, Monet, and Pissarro had also studied at the Académie Suisse. The sitter’s spectacles and tousled gray hair indicate that he is getting on in age, but his gaze is sharp and animated; a fitting tribute to an early creative influence, painted the same year that Courbet opened a teaching studio of his own.

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The 19th century work of art with the title Charles Switzerland was created by the realist artist Gustave Courbet in the year 1861. The original measures the size: 23 1/4 x 19 3/8 in (59,1 x 49,2 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the painter as the technique for the work of art. Nowadays, this artwork can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (licensed - public domain). : H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Gustave Courbet was a male painter, sculptor, communard, whose art style can primarily be classified as Realism. The painter lived for 58 years, born in 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and deceased in 1877 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.

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