Example sentences for: courbet

How can you use “courbet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Outstanding in the ground floor collections are the vast canvases of Gustave Courbet.

  • You get the sense, continually, of various fallen reins picked up, of artists in remote mining towns discovering Courbet, or Whistler, or Léger, or reinventing Impressionism or Expressionism as if they had never heard of those schools--as indeed they might not have.

  • You pause before the precocious Inn of Mère Antony (1866), where dinner guests modeled on the peasant forms of Millet and Courbet huddle around a candle-lit table.

  • Courbet was painting his vast canvases of provincial life, and Manet his Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.

  • No longer the wild and visionary improviser, Soutine now apprenticed himself to the great painterly painters of the past: Courbet, Chardin, and Rembrandt.


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