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COURBET, Gustave: Portrait of Adolphe Marlet

🖼 Portrait of Adolphe Marlet, 1851
Oil on canvas
56 × 46 cm
Dublin, Ireland

Rendered in earthy tones, this portrait captures a man in three-quarter view with direct, penetrating gaze and loosely brushed clothing. Courbet's unflinching realism and psychological intensity challenged academic portraiture conventions of 1851 France.

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