The Young Bather, 1866, Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 38 1/4 in. (130.2 x 97.2 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), The traditional theme of women bathing attracted Courbet’s attention repeatedly in the 1860s. This scene revisits a motif that excited a furor of controversy when the artist first broached it a decade earlier: a realistically fleshy nude enjoying herself at a woodland spring
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Young Bather, 1866, Oil, canvas, 51 1/4 x 38 1/4, 130.2 97.2 cm, Paintings, Gustave Courbet, French, Ornans, 1819–1877, La Tour-de-Peilz, traditional, theme, women bathing, attracted, Courbet, attention, repeatedly, 1860s, scene revisits, motif, excited, furor, controversy, artist first, broached, decade earlier, realistically fleshy, nude, enjoying, woodland spring
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