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COURBET, Gustave: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1871
Charcoal on brown paper
81 × 65 cm
Paris, France

Intense gaze and dark palette define this frontal self-portrait, rendered with Courbet's characteristic directness and psychological presence. Painted during political exile, it asserts artistic independence and challenges Romantic idealism through unflinching realism.

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E. H. Gombrich
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