Gustave Courbet
Date1969
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000)
Publisher
Gehenna Press
(American private publisher, 1942–2005)
Illustration CitationLaus Pictorum: Portraits of Nineteenth Century Artists. Northampton, Massachusetts: Gehenna Press, 1969.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 4 11/16 × 4 in. (11.9 × 10.2 cm)
sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009
Object number2009-49.3
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBaskin admired French realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) for his political and artistic commitments. Baskin stated: "He is included here in homage to his being steadfastly great in an unpopular style and for his fervor to win the people's freedom from French petit bourgeois tyranny."