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COURBET, Gustave: Portrait of Chenavard

🖼 Portrait of Chenavard, 1869
Oil on canvas
54 × 46 cm
Lyon, France

Dark tones frame a contemplative male figure, rendered with Courbet's characteristic realist precision and psychological depth. Chenavard was a respected painter-philosopher; this portrait captures nineteenth-century French intellectual culture through unflinching portraiture.

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E. H. Gombrich
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