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The Wounded Man is completed

1844 CE · Europe · Culture

The Wounded Man is completed
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The Wounded Man 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.

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