''After Dinner at Ornans'' (French: ''L'Après-dînée à Ornans'') is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Realist artist

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( ; ; ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the ...

, painted in winter 1848–1849 in Ornans. It is now in the

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. Its dimensions are 195 by 257 cm. It was the first of Courbet's imposing paintings of Ornans subjects; others include '' The Stone Breakers'' and '' A Burial at Ornans''.Faunce, Sarah; Nochlin, Linda (1988). ''Courbet Reconsidered''. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum. p. 83. . ''After Dinner at Ornans'' shows the influence of earlier French masters of

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painting such as Le Nain and Chardin. Courbet exhibited it in the Salon of 1849, where it won a medal and was purchased by the state. One of the first major paintings by

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, '' Mother Anthony's Tavern'' (1866), would pay homage to this work, showing the influence of Courbet on the early Renoir.Adams, Steven (1994).
The Barbizon School & the Origins of Impressionism
'. Phaidon Press. pp. 202-209. . .

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