Courbet, Gustave, French painter, born at Ornans; took to landscape-painting; was head of the Realistic school; joined the Commune in 1871; his property and pictures were sold to pay the damage done, and especially to restore the Vendôme Column; died an exile in Switzerland (1819‒1877).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Courbet * Courier, Paul Louis