Gustave Courbet, 1866 - Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl - fine art print

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English: The Irish girl in this painting is Joanna Heffernan. She modelled for the painter James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, with whom she lived. Courbet met her in Normandy in 1865 and they became very close friends. In the painting she pulls her hand through her loose, red hair, while gazing at her reflection in the mirror – a subject charged with symbolism associating to themes such as provocative sensuality, vanity or the transience of beauty. Courbet made three other versions of this painting. This is the original version, which belonged to his estate when he died in 1877. Irländskan i denna målning hette Joanna Heffernan. Hon var modell till målaren James Abbott MacNeill Whistler som hon också sammanlevde med. Courbet lärde känna henne i Normandie 1865 och de kom att stå varandra nära. I målningen för hon handen genom sitt utsläppta röda hår, samtidigt som hon betraktar sig i en spegel – ett symbolladdat motiv som förknippades med teman som utmanande sensualism, fåfänga eller skönhetens förgänglighet. Courbet utförde ytterligare tre varianter av målningen. Denna ursprungliga version hade han kvar i sin ägo ända till sin död 1877.

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Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl is a work of art made by the male artist Gustave Courbet. The beyond 150 year-old original was painted with the size: Height: 54 cm (21,2 ″); Width: 65 cm (25,5 ″) Framed: Height: 79 cm (31,1 ″); Width: 89 cm (35 ″); Depth: 10 cm (3,9 ″). This work of art belongs to the Nationalmuseum Stockholm's art collection, which is located in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden. With courtesy of Nationalmuseum Stockholm & Wikimedia Commons (licensed: public domain).Creditline of the artwork: . In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter, sculptor, communard Gustave Courbet was an artist from France, whose style can be classified as Realism. The French artist lived for 58 years and was born in the year 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and passed away in the year 1877 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.

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