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Who Commissioned the 19th Century's Most Notorious Painting?


The origins of Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’
Gustave Courbet,
L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), 1866, oil on canvas, 46 × 55 cm. Courtesy: © RMN-Grand Palais, Paris, and Art Resource, New York
The writer and photographer Maxime du Camp probably never saw the painting, but he knew enough to hate it. It was kept in the owner’s dressing room, he wrote, veiled by a dark-green curtain. The few guests for whom the curtain was drawn were stunned at what lay behind it. The subject was, he noted in the late 1870s, ‘rather difficult to describe’, before stating that it comprised: ‘A woman, life-size, seen front on, in a state of extraordinary movement and convulsion, remarkably well painted, reproduced, as the Italians say, con amore, and giving the last word in realism. But, by some inconceivable lapse, the artisan who had copied his model from nature had neglected to represent the feet, the legs, the thighs, the belly, the hips, the st ....

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