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Date : near 1862
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer (1929)
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French Painting
Painting
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France
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Courbet, Ingres et l'Ingrisme
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Courbet's The Source, painted in a naturalistic style and devoid of the trappings of academic allegory, may have been a response to Ingres's La Source (1856 - Musée d'Orsay - Paris), which was exhibited at the Galerie Martinet in 1861. Courbet version is though to date to 1862.
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