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Atelier de Gustave Courbet

Ornans, Doubs, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'atelier en totalité (cad. AT 28) : inscription par arrêté du 24 juillet 2008
Protection dates
2008/07/24 : inscrit MH
Type
demeure
Main period of construction
3e quart 19e siècle
Dates
1858
Architect or builder
Isabey Léon-Marie (architecte)
Ownership
propriété du département
Address
14 avenue De-Lattre-de-Tassigny
Commune
Ornans
Département
Doubs
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
47.10674, 6.13925
Mérimée reference
PA25000060

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).

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Gustave Courbet avait un atelier à Ornans, dans un grenier. Il l'agrandit, puis décida vers 1858 d'établir un atelier plus spacieux à l'entrée ouest de la ville, et de l'accompagner d'un parc allant jusqu'à la Loue. Il fit appel à l'architecte Léon-Marie Isabey qui aménagea un local industriel préexistant et créa une habitation complémentaire en forme de chalet. C'est un bâtiment rectangulaire qui se présente au fond d'une petite cour par son pignon. Le côté gauche conserve les baies d'origine. L'atelier comporte deux salles au sol carrelé, au plafond orné d'oiseaux peints attribués à Courbet. La baie qui relie les deux salles conserve le tympan métallique aux initiales du peintre. La salle antérieure s'orne de deux paysages peints sur la voussure du plafond. Au 20e siècle, le domaine a été démantelé, le chalet a été démoli.

English translation

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Gustave Courbet had a studio in Ornans, in a loft. He enlarged it, then decided around 1858 to establish a more spacious studio at the western entrance to the town, and to accompany it with a park extending to the Loue. He called upon architect Léon-Marie Isabey who arranged a pre-existing industrial building and created a complementary dwelling in the form of a chalet. It is a rectangular building which presents itself at the far end of a small courtyard by its gable. The left side retains the original openings. The studio comprises two rooms with tiled floors, the ceiling adorned with painted birds attributed to Courbet. The opening connecting the two rooms retains the metal tympanum with the painter's initials. The front room is decorated with two landscapes painted on the ceiling vault. In the 20th century, the estate was dismantled, the chalet was demolished.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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