Young Women from the Village
by COURBET, Gustave, Oil on canvas, 195 x 261 cm
This painting, depicting Courbet’s sisters, Zo�, Z�lie and Juliette giving alms to a girl cowherd, belongs to Courbet’s realist works which earned him the soubriquet of the “Watteau of the ugly” from Th�ophile Gautier. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1852 and was bought by the duc de Morny, half-brother to Napoleon III.