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A Burial At Ornans (French: Un enterrement à Ornans also known as A Funeral At Ornans) is a painting of 1849–50 by Gustave Courbet and one of the major turning points of 19th-century French art. The painting records the funeral in September 1848 of his great-uncle in the painter’s birthplace the small town of Ornans. It treats an ordinary provincial funeral with unflattering realism and on the giant scale traditionally reserved for the heroic or religious scenes of history painting.
