The Painter's Studio

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The Painter's Studio is a large, allegorical 1855 oil painting by Gustave Courbet that presents a symbolic panorama of mid-19th-century French society gathered around the artist at work.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf allegorical painting
oil painting
painting
artHistoricalSignificance key work of 19th-century Realism
self-reflexive meditation on role of the artist
artist Gustave Courbet
collection Musée d’Orsay collection
commissionedBy self-commissioned by Gustave Courbet
completionDate 1855
countryOfOrigin France
creator Gustave Courbet
depicts Gustave Courbet
a dog
artist at work
child
intellectuals
landscape painting on easel
mid-19th-century French society
nude female model
patrons
peasants
workers
exhibitedAt Exposition Universelle of 1855 (rejected official Salon)
exhibition Courbet’s Pavilion of Realism
genre allegorical painting
history painting
hasGenre self-portrait within a group scene
hasInfluenced later realist and modernist painters
hasPart central section with artist, model, and child
left section representing people of ordinary life
right section representing friends and supporters
inception 1854
languageOfTitle French
locatedIn Paris
location Musée d’Orsay
materialUsed canvas
oil paint
movement Realism
notableFor complex allegorical composition
large scale
social and political commentary
originalTitle L’Atelier du peintre
subjectMatter symbolic panorama of French society
timePeriodDepicted mid-19th century
title The Painter's Studio

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Gustave Courbet
notableWork
The Painter's Studio ("L’Atelier du peintre")
originalTitle
The Painter's Studio
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