april 5.  Gustav Courbet 1871.   Rather than painting a commissioned landscape of the view from his prison cell window, Courbet chose to paint still lifes of the fruit and flowers that were delivered to him by his sister.

april 5.  Gustav Courbet 1871.   Rather than painting a commissioned landscape of the view from his prison cell window, Courbet chose to paint still lifes of the fruit and flowers that were delivered to him by his sister.