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The Source is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, created c. 1862. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a nude women in a stream. Courbet's work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
| The Source | |
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| French: Nude-La Source[1], La Font | |
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| Artist | Gustave Courbet |
| Year | c. 1862 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 120 cm × 74.3 cm (47 in × 29.3 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| Accession | 29.100.58 |
Description
The Source depicts a nude woman caressing a flowing stream. Courbet painted the woman in such a way as to deviate from the contemporaneous idealized female form.[discuss] Courbet may have painted Source in direct response to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' 1856 painting The Source, which features a highly idealized female subject in a similar scene.[2]
The identity of Courbet's model is unknown; some sources speculate she modeled for Courbet twice,[3] while others state she only modeled once.[4] Source has been compared to Gauguin's 1893 painting The Moon and the Earth and Ingres' The Source.[5]
American feminist and philanthropist Louisine Havemeyer (1855 – 1929) acquired the painting in 1916, and later bequeathed the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[2] Prior to this, she had anonymously lent The Source to the Met during an exhibition of Courbet's work in 1919.[2]
References
- H. O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Objects of Art. n.p., 1931, pp. 80–81, ill., calls it "Nude-La Source" and dates it about 1862.
- "The Source". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Louisine W. Havemeyer. Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector. New York, 1961, pp. 185, 197–98, claims that the figure was painted in France and the landscape at Courbet's villa in Switzerland; states that she bought the picture from Durand-Ruel by cable in 1915 [see Ref. Weitzenhoffer 1986]; compares it to another version of the same subject (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; F627), suggesting that the same model was used for both pictures.
- Roger Bonniot. Gustave Courbet en Saintonge, 1862–1863. Paris, 1973, pp. 88–89, calls it as "Baigneuse à la source" or "La source"
- Royal Cortissoz. "Gustave Courbet at the Museum." New York Tribune (April 6, 1919), p. 7
Further reading
- Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including The Source
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- [en] The Source (Courbet)
[fr] La Source (Courbet, MET)
La Source (ou La Font.) est une peinture à l'huile sur toile réalisée vers 1862 par l'artiste français Gustave Courbet. Le tableau représente une femme nue vue de dos dans un ruisseau. L'œuvre de Courbet fait partie de la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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