"L'Origine du Monde" (The Origin of the World), an 1866 oil painting by the realist painter Gustave Courbet, hangs on the walls of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. A long-running dispute over claims of ...

Social media giant Facebook has been taken to court by a French user whose account was closed down after he posted an image of Gustave Courbet’s racy painting L’Origine du Monde (1866). According to ...

Artists Talk is an ongoing series that gives artists a platform to describe a particular artwork. “L’Origine du Monde” is a painting made by French artist Gustave Courbet in 1866. “L’Origine du Monde ...

It's been more than four years since French teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, after posting a link to a documentary about Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde" (1866) on Facebook, returned to the ...

One of the greatest mysteries in art history appears to have been solved. The identity of the model who posed for the most scandalous painting of the 19th century, Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du ...

The legal saga involving a French teacher who posted an image of Gustave Courbet’s L’Origin du Monde on his Facebook page and the social media giant continues . AFP reports that a Parisian court has ...

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One expert says she is "99 percent sure" the painting's notoriously naked nether regions belonged to Parisian ballet dancer Constance Queniaux. The canvas has never lost its power to shock – even ...

It is understandably difficult to identify the model behind Gustave Courbet’s most famous female nude, L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866), since the painting only depicts the cropped ...

May 29, 2014: Deborah de Robertis, half-naked, spread her legs beneath Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde ("The Origin of the World," 1866) at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, to denounce the place of ...