Woman with White Stockings (La Femme aux bas blancs) (Q10467459)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
nude (Q40446)
artist:
Gustave Courbet (Q34618)
collection:
Barnes Foundation (Q808462)
location:
Barnes Foundation (Q808462)
depicts:
woman (Q467)
nudity (Q10791)
stocking (Q193017)
brown hair (Q2367101)
waist-length hair (Q14130)
eyebrow (Q43748)
sitting (Q1144593)
smile (Q487)
blue (Q17122834)
breast (Q9103)
nipple (Q188641)
buttocks (Q42165)
intergluteal cleft (Q2044369)
shore (Q468756)
plant (Q756)
watercourse (Q355304)
shoe (Q22676)
garter (Q13742)
sole (Q876082)
barefoot (Q808132)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Barnes Foundation ID:
5221
catalog URL: https://www.wga.hu/html/c/courbet/3/courb302.html
information from the Barnes Foundation catalog
description: <p>Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative. Here, Courbet smashes that fiction. The nude is not Venus or Diana, but rather a prostitute preparing for the act. The picture's sexual content is frank: her genitalia is fully exposed, indeed placed exactly at the center of the composition, and there are several clues that hint at the prostitution theme. Clothes seem hastily discarded in the background, and she gazes out seductively at an unseen presence—presumably the client—who seems to stand or sit across from her. The path in front of her is well-worn, perhaps meant metaphorically. The graphic display of genitalia suggests that Courbet made this as a private commission. He painted several such explicitly sexual paintings during the 1860s.</p>
keywords
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cherubs
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child
dirt road
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kiss
legs
long hair
love
naked
nude
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nude
one
outdoor
people
person
posing
posing
reclining
religion
road
sexy
shirtless
person holding a teddy bear
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