Gustave Courbet was the realist artist painted working-class men and women.
Gustave Coubert was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. He committed to painting only what he could see. Courbet owns an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work. He used to depict unidealized peasants and workers.