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 |
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| instanceOf |
painting
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realist painting → |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
early example of socially engaged painting in 19th-century France
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example of Courbet's challenge to academic conventions → |
| artisticStyle |
anti-academic
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socially conscious realism → |
| collection |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| creator |
Gustave Courbet
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| creatorNationality |
French
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| creatorRole |
major work by Gustave Courbet
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| depicts |
a peasant girl
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cows → dog → hillside path → rural landscape → stone wall → three bourgeois women → trees → |
| depictsSocialClass |
bourgeoisie
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peasantry → |
| genre |
Realism
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| hasColorPalette |
earth tones
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muted colors → |
| hasPart |
background landscape
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foreground group of women → middle-ground animals → |
| inception |
1852
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| languageOfTitle |
French
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| location |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| mainSubject |
encounter between bourgeois women and peasant girl
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| materialUsed |
oil paint
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| movement |
Realism
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| movementRole |
key work of Courbet's early Realism
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| originalTitle |
Les Demoiselles du village
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| surface |
canvas
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| theme |
charity
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class relations → rural life → social inequality → |
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Gustave Courbet
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