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Gustave Courbet: Woman in the Waves (1868). Oil on canvas. Size:
54 x 65
cm. Detail.
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GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-77) was the foremost realist painter of France in
the mid-1800s.
Against much opposition truthfully portrayed ordinary places and people
and blended his
colours well.
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Pierre Bonnard: Model in backlight (1907). Oil on canvas.
Detail.
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PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947). French painter and printmaker. A leader of the
Intimists,
generally regarded as one of the greatest colorists of modern art.
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Gustave Courbet: The Sleepers (or Sleep) (1866). Oil on canvas.
Original size: 200
x 135 cm.
Detail.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: The Turkish Bath (1862). Oil on
canvas on
wood. Diameter 108 cm. Detail.
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INGRES (1780-1867). Neoclassical French painter, one of the major
portrait painters
of the 1800s. He was was reproached, however, for imitation of Gothic
masters and Jan van
Eyck. Woman portraits he made, expressed the "cult of the ideal woman".
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François Boucher: STH. Detail.
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Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema: STH. Detail.
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Alessandro Allori: STH. Detail.
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Fernando Botero: STH. Detail.
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Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo Allori): STH. Detail.
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Correggio (Antonio Allegri): STH. Detail.
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NN: STH. Detail.
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NN: STH. Detail.
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