biography
pronunciation:
[koorbay]
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| lived:
| (1819–77)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Ornans, E France. He was sent to Paris to study law, but turned to painting. The founder of Realism, in 1844 he began exhibiting pictures in which everyday scenes were portrayed with complete sincerity and absence of idealism, such as ‘Burial at Ornans’ (1849, Musée d'Orsay, Paris). His best-known work is the large ‘Studio of the Painter: an Allegory of Realism’ (1855, Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Republican in sympathies, he joined the Commune in 1871, and on its suppression was imprisoned. Released in 1873, he fled to Switzerland. |
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