Burial at Ornans was one of Gustave Courbet's break out pieces. This massive painting shows a variety of townspeople attending a funeral. The composition is designed to really bring you into the piece, with people standing all around a for the most part off panel grave. You are taken into the funeral for this painting, almost as if you are actually there, with a simple eye level view and basic composition you are greeting the fellow funeral attendees. The painting was inspired by an actual funeral that Courbet witnessed in 1848, he actually got people who he saw at the funeral to model for his painting. This picture was a huge controversy at the time, using a scale and size ussualy reserved for royalty or the devine, it was one of the first paintings of its kind. He considered this painting to be the death of romantisism.
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