Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) also known as the Two Friends (Les Deux Amies) and Indolence and Lust (Paresse et Luxure) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet, created in 1866. (Petit Palais, Paris)

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Blog of my visit to Frans Hals and the Moderns in the is up. Great exhibition about Hals' influence on Courbet, Manet, Van Gogh, and other (post-) Impressionists! Read more @ https://t.co/8zh6H7x7SU

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Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917) St. George’s Head, Kilkee (n.d.). The great Atlantic was something of a muse for Hone, who spent much time in west Clare from 1890 onwards. Undoubtedly influenced by Gustave Courbet, whose ‘wave’ paintings has been executed while Hone was in France.

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Sous le charme du : Ingres, Hubert Robert, Renoir, Monet, Courbet, Soulages, Léger... que de merveilles !

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Oui parce que le possède aussi quelques trésors de la peinture française du XIXe siècle, Géricault, Courbet, Morisot, Manet...

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🎨 : deux tableaux de Gustave La Vague (1869) et Les Bords de la mer à Palavas (vers 1854) du sont actuellement prêtés en Italie, au à pour l'exposition "Courbet et la nature" (jusqu'au 6 janvier 2019)

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Le Sommeil (The Sleepers), 1866. Art by Gustave Courbet.
Le sommeil d'après Courbet, 1955. Art by Bernard Buffet.

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A storm approaches in “A Gust of Wind” by Gustave Courbet, born in 1819. The painting is the French artist’s largest landscape. https://t.co/8Y9xRg2x3T

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French painter, Gustave Courbet, was born on this day in 1819. He visited 'The Sea-Arch at Etrat' in the Normandy in 1869, and in a month completed five views of the cliffs and numerous seascapes. He worked quickly, painting out of doors. Come and see the original in our gallery!

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5: ‘Self Portrait with a Skull’ by Michael Sweerts, 1660.

6: ‘The Desperate Man’ by Gustave Courbet, c. 1843-45.

7: ‘Emi of Tsunoi’ by Yanagawa Shigenobu, 1822.

8: Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle & cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, formerly attributed to Johann Zoffany, c. 1779.

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Gustave Courbet, Paysage de mer, 1872

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Dark clouds loom over this dramatic landscape by Gustave Courbet, born in 1819 ☁️ https://t.co/hmgPD9chXr

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Happy Birthday to painter Gustave Courbet, born on this day in 1819. Wish I was in 'The Hammock' right now!

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Does anyone else have a case of the Mondays? 😂 (Painting: The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) by Gustave Courbet, 1843)

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The Origin of the World, Gustave Courbet, 1866 at -- Learn more: https://t.co/IQgJCmQlO7

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Trois jeunes Anglaises à la fenêtre (1865).

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Gustave Courbet, Marine, 1866

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