The mystery behind one of the most controversial paintings in art history may have just been solved. According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The Origin ...

PARIS — For over 150 years, the famous painting’s origin was as mysterious as its subject, a meticulous close-up of a woman’s genitals, was considered unspeakable. No head, no arms, one breast: only a ...

Gustave Courbet’s infamous “The Origin of the World,” an intimate portrait of a female model’s nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866. Even more shocking, though, ...

One of the greatest mysteries in art history appears to have been solved. The identity of the model who posed for the most scandalous painting of the 19th century, Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

WORCESTER — This adorable picture of a fluffy white kitten in the arms of a comely, blurry-eyed young woman who seems to want you to come back to bed, was painted by Gustave Courbet, the father of ...

After finally agreeing to teach painting, Gustave Courbet brought a cow – rather than a human – to model for his class. The French artist’s conviction that the "living art’’ he sought to paint ...

Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the women ...