Young Ladies Beside The Seine (Summer)

''Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer)'' (French - ''Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (été)'') is an oil on canvas painting by

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

. He painted it between late 1856 and early 1857 and presented it to the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

jury, which accepted it and exhibited it on 15 June 1857 with two portraits and three landscapes by the same artist. It was bought by Courbet's friend and patron Étienne Baudry (1830-1908), then left by him to the painter's sister Juliette, who left it to the French state in 1906. It now hangs in the Petit Palais in Paris. A smaller (96.5 x 130 cm) sketch version is now in the

National Gallery, London The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

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