2116 USTAVE COURBET (1819-77) BELONGED TO THE G Post-Romantic generation of French artists and writers that included Honore Daumier, J.-F. Millet, Gustave Flau bert, and Charles Baudelaire. They were born at the close of an heroic age. In their youth, they witnessed the breakdown of a common language of Classicism, the dissipation of revolutionary idealism, and the growing division between arti...