Woman with a Parrot
1866 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 51 x 77 in. (129.5 x 195.6 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
When this painting was shown in the Salon of 1866, critics censured Courbets "lack of taste" as well as his model's "ungainly" pose and "disheveled hair." Yet the provocative picture found favor with a younger generation of artists who shared Courbet’s disregard for academic standards. Manet began his version of the subject (89.21.3) the same year; and Cézanne apparently carried a small photograph of the present work in his wallet.
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About this artwork
Woman with a Parrot (1866) by Gustave Courbet, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 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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