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Timeline

Timeline

Key dates in Courbet’s life

1819

Born on June 10 in Ornans.

1839

Moved to Paris.

1844

Romantic period.

 Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man), self-portrait.

1847

Moved closer to Baudelaire and the Realism movement.

1849

Sent Une après-dînée à Ornans (After Dinner at Ornans) to the Salon.

1850

Un enterrement à Ornans.

(A Burial At Ornans)

1855

L’Atelier du peintre (The Painter’s Studio) was rejected by the Salon.

Founded the Pavilion of Realism.

1864

La Femme aux bas blancs.

(The Woman with White Stockings)

1865

Seascapes in Trouville.

1866

L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) and Le Sommeil (The Sleepers), painted for Khalil-Bey.

1870

Elected President of the Arts Commission after the fall of the Empire.

1871

Elected to the Paris Commune.

Arrested after the toppling of the Vendôme Column, and imprisoned in Sainte-Pélagie, Paris, for six months, until March 1872.

1873

Fled to Switzerland on July 23, and in December settled in La Tour-de-Peilz, at Pension Bellevue (until 1875).

1874

Coucher de soleil sur le Léman (Sunset on Lake Geneva).

Bords du lac Léman (The Shore of Lake Geneva).

Took part in the Turnus exhibition in Lausanne.

1875

La Liberté (Liberty).

Moved to Bon Port.

1876

La Mouette du Lac Léman, poésie (The Gull of Lake Geneva).

Took part in the Turnus exhibition in Lausanne.

1877

Grand Panorama des Alpes, les Dents du Midi

(Grand Panorama of the Alps with the Dent du Midi).

Died, aged 58, from dropsy at six o’clock in the morning on December 31.