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The Artist’s Studio

The Artist’s Studio
French Realist painter Gustave Courbet initially shocked his audience by depicting working-class people in everyday activities. In the work pictured he took the creation of art as his subject, depicting the intellectual and physical history of his studio, including people who had helped or inspired him. The Artist’s Studio was painted in 1855 and is in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY
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Courbet, (Jean Désiré) Gustave
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