Gustave Courbet
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Rom
Portrait photograph by Nadar, c. 1860s
Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), c. 1845
Self-Portrait with Pipe, 1849, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
The Wave (La Vague), 1869, oil on canvas, 66 cm × 90 cm (26 in × 35 in), Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon
Le Sommeil
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Le Sommeil is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in 1866. The painting, which depicts a female couple, is also known as The Two Friends and Indolence and Lust.
Gustave Courbet
…culminating in The Origin of the World (L'Origine du monde) (1866), which depicts female genitalia and was not publicly exhibited until 1988, and Sleep (1866), featuring two women in bed. The latter painting became the subject of a police report when it was exhibited by a picture dealer in 1872. Until…
Gustave Courbet Le Sommeil, Paris, Petit Palais