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Which 17th-century Spanish painters did Gustave Courbet study at the Louvre?

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Painting by Gustave Courbet showing the artist at his easel in a crowded studio, surrounded by figures including a nude model, onlookers, and a child with a white dog. — Realism The Painter's Studio, showing Gustave Courbet at the easel, oil on canvas by Courbet, 1854–55; in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

While studying at the Louvre in Paris, Gustave Courbet gained technical proficiency by copying the works of 17th-century Spanish masters, specifically Diego Velázquez and José de Ribera.1