Gustave Courbet / Young Ladies of the Village

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Young Ladies of the Village

c. 1851–1852 · Oil on canvas

ArtistGGustave Courbet

MuseumTThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

MovementRRealism

LocationNew York, United States

Genrelandscape painting

Dimensions194.9 × 261 cm

SourceWikidata Q19911495

Why it matters

Courbet's three sisters offer food to a barefoot peasant girl in a hilly landscape near Ornans, his native region.

Did you know?

It was painted in 1852.
A preparatory sketch is in Leeds Art Gallery.
One of the sisters holds an umbrella against the sun.

Based on the Wikipedia article Young Ladies of the Village (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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