L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) is an oil painting on canvas completed in 1866 by the French painter Gustave Courbet. It presents a close, cropped view of a reclining nude woman's torso and pelvis, with her face left out of the frame. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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L'Origine du monde (French pronunciation: [lɔʁiʒin dy mɔ̃d], "The Origin of the World") is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet in 1866.
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L'Origine du monde (French pronunciation: [lɔʁiʒin dy mɔ̃d], "The Origin of the World") is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet in 1866. It is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked
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Gustave Courbet
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It is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked woman, lying on a bed with legs spread.
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