Both the life and work of the French painter Gustave Courbet remain full of contradictions, given his provocative, challenging and rebellious spirit. Harassed by criticism and rejected by tradition, he reflected his anguish in his iconic self-portrait: “The Desperate Man,” whose story you can read at the following link:

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