Year 1866 Medium Oil on canvas Created 1866 | Artist Gustave Courbet Period Realism Media Canvas, Paint, Oil paint | |
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Dimensions 129.5 cm × 195.6 cm (51.0 in × 77.0 in) Location Metropolitan Museum of Art Similar The Wounded Man, The Bathers, The Stone Breakers, The Wheat Sifters, A Burial At Ornans | ||
La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) is an oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet. It was the first nude (art) by the artist to be accepted by the Paris Salon in 1866 after a previous entry in 1864 was rejected as indecent.
Description
The painting shows a woman reclining on her back, with a pet parrot alighting on an outstretched hand. While painted in a style to gain Academy acceptance in its pose and smooth flesh tones, the model's discarded clothes and disheveled hair were controversial, although less so than Le Sommeil, painted the same year. Joanna Hiffernan likely posed for both paintings, as she did for others by Courbet.
References
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