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The Source

painting by Gustave Courbet
VisualArtwork painting Q4891521
The Source
Gustave Courbet · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

20 properties
Instance of
painting
Inception
1862
Owned by
Louisine Havemeyer[4]
Genre
nude[6]
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Catalog code
315, 328
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1929–present)
Copyright status
public domain
Creator
Gustave Courbet[2]
Depicts
woman, nudity, brown hair, waist-length hair, back, breast, waist, hip, dimples of Venus, buttocks, intergluteal cleft, gluteal sulcus, spring, river source, waterfall, watercourse, rural area, standing, nude[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Described by source
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Height
120.0
Inventory number
29.100.58
Made from material
oil paint, canvas
Main subject
woman, stream
Maintained by
European Paintings[3]
Movement
academic art[5]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Met Museum artworks on display
Title
The Source
Width
74.3
🏷️ Also known as
en The Source ar المصدر ( كوربيه) da Kilden de Die Quelle es La fuente fr La Source he (גוסטב קורבה) it Donna alla sorgente ja 泉 ro Izvorul (pictură de Courbet) ru Источник ru Источник (картина) sv Källan
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Artstor artwork ID
18673812
Bpk-ID
50115154
Google Arts & Culture asset ID
7gGZ6ySLUGPRcA
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1229bd7v
The Met object ID
436022
WikiArt ID
gustave-courbet/the-source

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Depicts 19
woman, breast, waterfall, buttocks, spring, back, nudity, rural area +11 more
Made from material 2
oil paint, canvas
Main subject 2
woman, stream
Collection 1
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright status 1
public domain
Creator 1
Gustave Courbet
Genre 1
nude
Instance of 1
painting
Location 1
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Movement 1
academic art
Owned by 1
Louisine Havemeyer
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
Louisine Havemeyer
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Summary

The Source is a painting[1].

Related Entities

Gustave Courbet Metropolitan Museum of Art public domain

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  2. [4] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. wikidata.org.
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  5. [2] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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