The Studio of the Painter, a Real Allegory, 1855 (oil on canvas)

L'Atelier du peintre - Allegorie Reelle determining a phase of seven years of my artistic life (and moral) The painting is divided into three parts: on the right the friends of Courbet, artists and intellectuals of the time (Charles Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval, the Sabatier, Champfleury, Bruyas son mecene). In the centre the painter depicts a landscape, surrounds his two main sources of inspiration (the body of the woman and her naivete as a child) - On the left, the people, the misery, the exploits and the exploiters, a sitting poacher, probably Napoleon III, a Jew holding a silver cassette, a bourgeois, a peasant, a worker, a journalist, a republican of 1793 and a prostituee - Painting by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), 1855, Oil on canvas, 3.61 x 5.98m - Musee d'Orsay - The artist's studio or Allegory of seven years of my artistic life and moral (on the right, Courbet's friends Charles Baudelaire and Jeanne Duval, the Sabatier, Champfleury, Bruyas his patron, the center, the artist painting a landscape surrounded by his two main sources of inspiration (female body and naivete in guise of a child) and on the left, the people, the misery, the exploited and the exploiters a poacher sitting, probably Napoleon III, a Jew holding a cassette money, bourgeois, peasant, a worker, a journalist, a Republican from 1793 and a prostitute) - Painting by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), oil on canvas (361x598 cm), 1855 - Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France