Gustave Courbet’s sensuous “Nude Woman Reclining” — showing a tousle-haired, sleeping woman in white stockings and little else — is on show starting Saturday at the Grand Palais.

Courbet painted “Woman With a Cat” in the middle of all this. If he was saying to Whistler, “Look, I can do extraordinary things with white too: a lacy cap, a kitten’s fur, a flimsy ...

The mystery behind one of the most controversial paintings in art history may have just been solved. According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The ...

Mimicking Courbet's painting, which shook the sensibility of audiences in 1866 to their core, Robertis shows that a woman's genitalia can turn just as many heads today—shocker.

He commissioned two paintings by Courbet, including L’Origine du monde, which he kept behind a green curtain for his private viewing pleasure. “She couldn’t refuse anything to Khalil Bey… and I think ...

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 ...

For 150 years, it wasn't known who modeled for a famous nude painting by Gustave Courbet. A French literature expert says he's stumbled upon the answer.

Two women were arrested after tagging a Courbet painting with the words "Me Too" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Another work was allegedly stolen.