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Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the French Realist painting movement in the 19th century. He was committed to painting only what he could see, rejecting academic conventions and the romanticism of previous generations of visual artists. His independence set an important example for later Impressionist and Cubist painters. It all gave him an idea of a major scandal spreader in the art world. But before all this, Courbet, like everyone in his day, was studying art. in a very traditional way. At the time, part of the learning program was to draw nudes, to learn how to draw the human body.
This training painting is thought to have been painted by the young Courbet shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1839, when he studied with Baron Charles de Steuben (1788-1856) for several months before going on to Switzerland Study at the Académie Suisse. In that era, themes drawn from antiquity and the Bible were at the top of the established thematic hierarchy, and the successful depiction of naked male bodies was the benchmark formed by the artist. Few of Courbet’s early works of this kind have survived, and the origin of the painting remains unknown.
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73.7 × 84.1 cm
academic art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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