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This Salon picture of 1852 shows Courbet's three sisters, Zélie, Juliette and Zoé. One of them offers alms to a poor cowherd, strolling in the Communal, a small valley near the artist's native Ornans. It initiated a series of works devoted to the lives of the women. Salon critics attacked the canvas for ugliness, reviling the girls common features and countries costumes, the ridiculous little dog ant cattle, and its lack of unity and traditional perspective and scale.
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