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Original works by Gustave Courbet available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
4 works by Gustave Courbet online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
5 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Self Portrait
Portrait of the Artist's Sister
Landscape in the Jura, ca.1864
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Still Life of Flowers, 1863
Reclining Woman, ca.1865-66
Landscape with a Dead Horse, 1850s
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Grotto of Sarrazine near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Courbet
Gustave Courbet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare, 1867
Louis Gueymard as Robert le Diable, 1857
The Source, 1862
Gustave Courbet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Self-Portrait with Upraised Arm, ca.1840
Gustave Courbet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Young Communards in Prison, black chalk drawing, 1871
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
3 works online
Musée Courbet, Ornans, France (in French) 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on Self-Portrait, known as At the Easel
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on 7 paintings by Gustave Courbet
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris NEW!
Many works by Gustave Courbet online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Gustave Courbet at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Gustave Courbet
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Meeting or Good Day, Monsieur Courbet, 1854
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Beach at Palavas, 1854
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study for Girls on the banks of the Seine (Summer)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Gustave Courbet at the National Gallery, London, UK
9 paintings online
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
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A total of 8 works displayed over 2 pages of search results
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
4 works by Gustave Courbet online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Wave
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Roe Deer in the Snow
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Source of the Loue, ca.1864
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Castle of Chillon, Evening
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Landscape with stag, 1873
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Woman Painted at Palavas1854, ca.1854
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
View at Ornans
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Eternity
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Wave
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Sunset, Vevey, Switzerland
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
See this page and also "Courbet in Montpelier"
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Laure Borreau
Panoramic View of the Alps, La Dent du Midi
Landscape with Large Trees
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Le bord de mer à Palavas, 1854
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
La prison près du lac
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Portrait of H. J. van Wisselingh
Roe Deer at a Stream
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland NEW!
Alphabetically under "C"
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (mostly in German)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Stonebreaker
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
Portrait of Clement Laurier
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Le Ruisseau du Puits Noir, ca.1865
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
Les Paysans de Flagey
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
La dame aux bijoux
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
La mer
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Coucher de soleil, 1874
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
La prison pre du lac (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Head of a Girl
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Low Tide at Trouville, ca.1865
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Three Young Englishwomen by a Window, 1865
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Still Life, 1871
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Gorge in a Forest (The Black Well), ca.1865
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
The Hammock, 1844
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna NEW!
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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9 works by Gustave Courbet online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Wave, ca.1871
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
The Violoncellist, 1847
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
La signora Adela Guerrero, danseuse espagnole
Les sources de la Loue
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Preparation of the Dead Girl, ca.1850-55
Southampton City Gallery, England NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Trellis
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
View of the Mediterranean at Maguelonne, 1858
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
2 works online
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Self-Portrait, black chalk drawing
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Meeresstrand, 1865
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Schloß Chillon, 1873
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Woman with a Cat, 1864
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - Provenance Research
Le Grand Pont, 1864
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Pictures from Image Archives:
Gustave Courbet in the Art Renewal Center
Gustave Courbet in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Vue d'une mer agitée près d'une falaise
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self Portrait
Artonline
Gustave Courbet at CGFA
Insecula
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
The Athenaeum
160 works online by Courbet
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online)
3 works online
Philippe Gambette Web Site (in French)
Photographs of several paintings, from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gustave Courbet
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
ARTnews
"The Mysterious Journey of Courbet's Femme nue couchée
Qui est Gustave Courbet? (Who is Gustave Courbet?) (in French)
Article in French with links to many paintings
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: In the Drawing Room At the Metropolitan, It's Courbet at 21
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: The 'Later' Courbet, Master of Land, Sea, In Stunning Exhibit
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Salander-O'Reilly Mounts Incredible Courbet Show
Time Magazine
"An Abiding Passion for Reality", 1989 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Courbet: Painting as Politics", 1977 article by Robert Hughes
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