Famous work · not an exact-location map point
The Painter's Studio
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A 'real allegory' — an assembled studio interior, not a place.
- Date
- 1855
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Musée d'Orsay
In the collection of Musée d'Orsay
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris — collection record for Gustave Courbet, ‘L’Atelier du peintre. Allégorie réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique et morale’, inv. RF 2257; 1854–55, oil on canvas, 361 × 598 cm; acquired 1920 by public subscription (musee-orsay.fr)
- Hélène Toussaint, ‘Gustave Courbet 1819–1877’ (exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris, 1977) — the identification of the figures; Sarah Faunce & Linda Nochlin, ‘Courbet Reconsidered’ (Brooklyn Museum, 1988)
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