Gustave Courbet loved to present himself as a hard-drinking, radical-thinking peasant artist in mid-nineteenth century Paris, but his public image was largely a creation of his own yet with his greatest paintings his radicalism was for real.

Courbet's famous peasant scenes like his enormous Burial at Ornans were like nothing ever seen before. This was the art of Realism and many critics were outraged. How could a painter make common people the subject of High Art? But Courbet defied the critics to secure the fame that he craved and deserved.

Titles in the series include:
D7060 Delacroix
D7061 Rossetti
D7062 Freidrich
D7063 Goya
D7064 Whistler
D7065 Courbet