Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl
1866 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 54 × 65 cm
Collection: Art Whisperer
A painting of one of the artists favorite models Joanna Hiffernan who was the mistress of Courbet's good friend James McNeill Whistler. Hifferman would be used later in Courbet's scandalous painting Le Sommeil ending her relationship with Whistler and damaging the friendship between Whistler and Courbet.
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About this artwork
Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl (1866) by Gustave Courbet, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.
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