Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Gustave Courbet
Born: June 10, 1819
Died: December 31, 1877 (aged 58)
Bio: Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
Known for:
- A Burial At Ornans (1850)
- L'Origine du monde (1866)
- The Stone Breakers (1849)
- The Painter's Studio (1855)
- El desesperado (1845)