Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the ...

Over spring break, I had the opportunity to visit an array of art museums throughout the Washington D.C. area. One of my more ...

THE HEADLINES PROTEST/ART. Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World ... A video shows two women painted the words "MeToo" on the Courbet artwork and another by the feminist Valie Export.