Gustave Courbet (France, 1819-1877) L'Atelier du peintre (The Painter's Studio) oil on canvas 361 cm × 598 cm (142 in × 235 in) painted in 1855 Collection of Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France In this painting of gigantic dimensions (3.61 by 5.98 meters), the realist painter provokes his contemporaries by adopting the format of a ...