Place Vendôme
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The Place Vendôme, originally the Place Louis-le-Grand, and later the Place Internationale, is a public square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and eas
Place Vendôme, Paris
The Foire Saint-Ovide around 1770 by Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, Musée de la Révolution française
Destruction by the Revolutionaries of the equestrian statue of Louis XIV August 10, 1792
View to the north with the Couvent des Capucines in the background and Montmartre in the distance
Gustave Courbet
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Rom
Place Vendôme
…who, after being fired on, opened fire on the crowd. At least 12 people were killed and many wounded. During the Paris Commune in 1871, the painter Gustave Courbet, president of the Federation of Artists and elected member of the Commune, who had previously expressed his dismay that this monument to war was located…
Portrait photograph by Nadar, c. 1860s
Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), c. 1845
Self-Portrait with Pipe, 1849, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
The Wave (La Vague), 1869, oil on canvas, 66 cm × 90 cm (26 in × 35 in), Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon