![Gustave Courbet - The Young Bather [1866] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sOy8yZT9cmByXCNasELsIV0RGpxG-LdR_H2tNVhybWqUcNCY5440qXZqwWTPR273DrxRfy0QPEJvQvcKpM5RcoWm9XCnsyynJXhGvwNLeo5zFt6rskLALDo0FMKiOE=s0-d)
In 1853, Courbet created a scandal when he exhibited Bathers (Musée Fabre, Montpellier), one of his earliest paintings of nudes in a landscape. The realism of his figures shocked his contemporaries, who were accustomed to the idealised nudes of academic art. Here, the highly finished figure contrasts with the more loosely painted landscape background, which was possibly executed with a palette knife rather than a brush. This painting and five others by Courbet once belonged to the nineteenth-century Turkish collector Khalil Bey.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.2 cm]
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