A Burial at Ornans
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A Burial at Ornans is a monumental mid-19th-century realist painting by Gustave Courbet that depicts an ordinary provincial funeral with unprecedented scale and unidealized detail, challenging academic conventions of history painting.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Realist artwork
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oil painting → painting → |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
challenged academic history painting conventions
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elevated everyday subject matter to grand scale → landmark of Realism → |
| artist |
Gustave Courbet
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| collection |
Musée d'Orsay
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| commissionedBy |
not a formal commission
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| completionDate |
1850
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| creator |
Gustave Courbet
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| depicts |
clergy
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funeral → grave diggers → landscape of Ornans → mourners → open grave → ordinary provincial people → rural funeral → |
| exhibitionHistory |
Salon of 1850–1851
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| firstOwner |
Gustave Courbet
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| genre |
Realism
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| hasPart |
choirboys
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crucifix → dog → group of life-sized figures → pallbearers → peasant women → priests → skull → village dignitaries → |
| height |
approximately 314 cm
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| inception |
1849
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| locatedIn |
France
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Paris → |
| location |
Musée d'Orsay
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| locationDepicted |
Ornans
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| medium |
oil on canvas
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| movement |
Realism
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| originalTitle |
Un enterrement à Ornans
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| setIn |
Franche-Comté
NERFINISHED
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| style |
monumental horizontal composition
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unidealized representation → |
| subjectMatter |
ordinary provincial funeral
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| theme |
critique of social hierarchy
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death → social equality in death → |
| timePeriodDepicted |
mid-19th century
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| titleLanguage |
French
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| width |
approximately 663 cm
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Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Ornans
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hasPaintingDepictingIt |
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Gustave Courbet
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notableWork |
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A Burial at Ornans
("Un enterrement à Ornans")
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originalTitle |