Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), Gustave Courbet, ca. 1852–57

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Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), ca. 1852–57, Oil on canvas, 69 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. ( x 108 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Several artists ventured portraits of Mathilde Desportes, including the popular academician Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905), but her husband, Auguste Cuoq, found most of them unacceptable. This likeness was among those he rejected, reportedly because he felt that it did not adequately convey his wife’s beauty

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