CourbetOrnans 1819 – Vevey 1877
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Find out how specialists have been on the right track too, even a contemporary.
Courbet’s Corpulent Bathers: A Postscript
This painting like many of Courbet's images of caves and the sources of rivers consists of a dark hole with rock swirling around it in the form of an eye.
Courbet’s Grotte de la Source Enneige (c.1866)
It does not take a genius to recognize that Courbet has turned the rock at left into a human face with water sprouting from the mouth.
Courbet’s Landscape with Anthropomorphic Rocks (1873)
Even a minor sketch does not escape a great artist's need to identify
Courbet’s Portrait of a Young Boy
Courbet's reflection on his own mind will help you recognize a similar technique elsewhere
Courbet’s The Lovers (1844)
Michael Fried has seen how Courbet painted himself in The Stonebreakers
Courbet’s The Stonebreakers (1849)
Michael Fried read this painting exactly as we would 20 years ago
Courbet’s The Wheat Sifters (1854-5)
See how a self-portrait viewed through a different perspective changes everything
Courbet’s The Wounded Man (1844-54)
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