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    Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet created in...
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    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...
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    Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: /ˈkʊərbeɪ/ KOOR-bay, US: /kʊərˈbeɪ/ koor-BAY, French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter...
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    L'Origine du monde (category Paintings by Gustave Courbet)
    obvious candidate might be the brunette painted with Hiffernan in Courbet's Le Sommeil; and that the identification with Hiffernan has been greatly influenced...
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    Julien Courbet (born 7 February 1965) is a French journalist, television presenter and producer. Julien Courbet was born Frédéric René Courbet in Eysines...
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  • (album), a solo album from rapper Big Pooh Le Sommeil (The Sleepers), an 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet "The Sleepers" (poem), by Walt Whitman Sleepers...
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    posed for Courbet in The Sleepers, or Le Sommeil, which depicts two naked women in bed asleep. It is likely that she had an affair with Courbet at this...
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    Gustave Courbet. This is likely to have influenced his style.[citation needed] In 1955, he painted a work that paid tribute to Courbet's Le Sommeil.[citation...
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    Breakers, 1849 Gustave Courbet, After Dinner at Ornans, 1849 Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850 Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1866, Petit Palais...
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    Breakers (French: Les Casseurs de pierres), also known as Stonebreakers, was an 1849 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet. Now destroyed...
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    Rodin's illustrations for Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal included lesbian scenes. Gustave Courbet's Le Sommeil (1866) illustrates a scene from the 1835...
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    collector and patron. He was introduced to Gustave Courbet by Sainte-Beuve, and commissioned Le Sommeil (The Sleepers) and L'Origine du monde from him. The...
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    The Musée Courbet or Courbet Museum is a museum dedicated to the French painter Gustave Courbet. It is located in Ornans in the Doubs-Franche-Comté area...
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    Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Gustave Courbet L'Origine du monde Le Sommeil Edgar Degas – Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey...
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    also posed for Gustave Courbet. Historians speculate that Courbet used her as the model for his erotic paintings Le Sommeil and L'Origine du monde, possibly...
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    Cavalier, is a native of Besançon. The Christmas carol "Berger, Secoue Ton Sommeil Profond", known in English as "Shepherds, Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep"...
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  • as goddesses. One well known painting from the 19th century is Gustave Courbet's Sleep which openly depicts two women asleep after love-making (indicated...
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    Jordaens : Le Sommeil d'Antiope, 1650 et L'Adoration des bergers Jean Jouvenet Charles de La Fosse Charles Le Brun Eustache Le Sueur Robert Le Lorrain :...
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    known that many of the great 19th-century painters, including Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, and Gauguin, took photographs themselves, used...
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