Young Ladies of the Village

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"Young Ladies of the Village" is an 1850s realist painting by Gustave Courbet depicting three bourgeois women encountering a peasant girl in a rural landscape, emblematic of his socially conscious, anti-academic style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
realist painting
artHistoricalSignificance early example of socially engaged painting in 19th-century France
example of Courbet's challenge to academic conventions
artisticStyle anti-academic
socially conscious realism
collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
surface form: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
countryOfOrigin France
creator Gustave Courbet
creatorNationality French
creatorRole major work by Gustave Courbet
depicts a peasant girl
cows
dog
hillside path
rural landscape
stone wall
three bourgeois women
trees
depictsSocialClass bourgeoisie
peasantry
genre Realism
hasColorPalette earth tones
muted colors
hasPart background landscape
foreground group of women
middle-ground animals
inception 1852
languageOfTitle French
location Metropolitan Museum of Art
mainSubject encounter between bourgeois women and peasant girl
materialUsed oil paint
movement Realism
movementRole key work of Courbet's early Realism
originalTitle Les Demoiselles du village
surface canvas
theme charity
class relations
rural life
social inequality

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Gustave Courbet notableWork Young Ladies of the Village