Gustave Courbet, 1862 - The Source - fine art print

What does the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art say about the 19th century artwork painted by Gustave Courbet? (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

Rejecting the convention of showing an idealized, statuesque female figure based on classical models, in this work Courbet dropped the trappings of an academic allegory or, indeed, of a picture with a high-minded pretext. His picture of a woman embracing a cascade of water may have been a response to a work by Ingres exhibited in Paris the previous year, which depicts a hyper-idealized nude holding a jar from which water pours as an allusion to spring or a river source.

Interesting facts about the painting painted by the Realist artist Gustave Courbet

The 19th century piece of art was created by the male artist Gustave Courbet in 1862. The more than 150 year-old original version measures the size: 47 1/4 x 29 1/4 in (120 x 74,3 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. Besides, this artwork is in the the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The modern art public domain artpiece is included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. In addition, the artwork has the creditline: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Gustave Courbet was a male painter, sculptor, communard from France, whose art style can mainly be classified as Realism. The European painter was born in the year 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and passed away at the age of 58 in the year 1877.

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