The Wounded Man (painting)
Gustave Courbet · 1844
The story
The Wounded Man (French: L'Homme blessé) is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait created between 1844 and 1854 by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet. In it, Courbet depicts himself in a romantic theme as a suffering, heroic man. Originally, the composition featured a woman leaning on the artist's shoulder. Sometime before May 1854, Courbet replaced her with a sword, and added a red bloodstain on his shirt. Courbet's decision to depict himself as a wounded man may have arisen from his distress at the dissolution, circa 1851, of his 14-year relationship with Virginie Binet, with whom he had a son.
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet
- Date
- 1844
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 81.5 × 97.5 cm
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