Showing posts with label Gustave Courbet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gustave Courbet. Show all posts

Friday, 28 June 2013

Bonjour


M. Courbet. Fled from prison in Paris 1880, via his parents home in Ornans and then onto exile in the Swiss Jura. My route exactly. He wore peasant gear and an 'asyrian' beard, I'm wearing Haglofs. One of the few artists to come from a farming family.