Why it matters
Two women lie in the grass beneath trees at the edge of the river, one in a white dress with half-closed eyes, the other in red holding a bouquet. Courbet showed it at the Salon of 1857.
Did you know?
- It was painted from late 1856 to early 1857.
- It belonged to Courbet's patron Étienne Baudry.
- Courbet's sister Juliette left it to the French state in 1906.
Based on the Wikipedia article Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
