Model Reading in the Studio
Gustave Courbet · c. 1849 · Black crayon and charcoal, with stumping and scraping, on cream wove card
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Model Reading in the Studio is a public-domain drawing by Gustave Courbet, dated c. 1849. Black crayon and charcoal, with stumping and scraping, on cream wove card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Model Reading in the Studio” (c. 1849) gives an ordinary subject — labor, a funeral, or a local landscape — the size once reserved for history painting.
About the artist
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French Realist who painted stone breakers, funerals, and the landscape of his home region at the scale once reserved for history painting.
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