Woman with a Parrot (Courbet)

This article is about the 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet. For other uses, see Woman with a Parrot (disambiguation).

La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot)
Artist	Gustave Courbet
Year	1866
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	129.5 cm× 195.6 cm(51.0 in× 77.0 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
Accession	29.100.57

La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) is an oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet. It was the first nude by the artist to be accepted by the Paris Salon in 1866 after a previous entry in 1864 was rejected as indecent. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. ^[1]

Description

The painting shows a woman reclining on her back, with a pet parrot alighting on an outstretched hand. While painted in a style to gain Academy acceptance in its pose and smooth flesh tones, the model's discarded clothes and disheveled hair were controversial, ^[2] although less so than Le Sommeil , painted the same year. Joanna Hiffernan likely posed for both paintings, as she did for others by Courbet.

The work is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 811.

References

1. "Gustav Courbet:Woman with a Parrot". New York: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. 2008. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
2. Sorabella, Jean (January 2008). "The Nude in Baroque and Later Art, In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 October 2012.

External links

• Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on ___ (see index)