Friday, February 15, 2013

Gustave Courbet - The Source [1862]


Courbet's The Source, painted in a naturalistic style and devoid of the trappings of academic allegory, may have been a response to Ingres's La Source (1856, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which was exhibited at the Galerie Martinet in 1861. Courbet's version is thought to date to 1862.

[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 120 x 74.3 cm]
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