Woman with a Parrot — Gustave Courbet (1866)

This nude scandalized critics and fellow artists at the 1866 Salon for its frank realism and unconventional pose; Manet reportedly complained that the anatomy of the raised arm was physically impossible.

Gustave Courbet, 1866 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Honest scale — sizes listed in inches — the original is 129.5 × 195.6 cm.
• Source recorded — public-domain master scan, printed on matte stretched canvas, 0.75″ deep. Made to order.

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