L'Origine Du Monde
L'Origine Du Monde Collection
Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du monde presents a moment of startling clarity - an unembellished vision that dispenses with allegory to reveal the quiet grandeur of life’s beginning.
L’Origine du monde is important for women because it reclaims the female body from centuries of objectification, idealization, and silence.
Painted in 1866, during an era when women were often portrayed as muses, symbols, or fantasies - never as full, autonomous beings - Courbet’s work presents the female form with unflinching honesty and profound significance