The Source, 1862, Oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. (120 x cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877

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The Source, 1862, Oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. (120 x cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), This nude is painted in an unflinchingly naturalistic style and is devoid of the trappings of academic allegory to which the painting’s title alludes. Courbet is thought to have intended it as a response to Ingres’s own La Source (1856, Musée d’Orsay, Paris), which was exhibited at the Galerie Martinet, Paris, in 1861

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