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Le Réveil (Venus and Psyche)

1866

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The story

The Salon jury of 1864 refused Courbet's first Venus and Psyche as immoral, and conservative critics read the myth as a thin cover for two women in bed. That canvas was destroyed in Berlin in World War II, and Courbet returned to the pair in smaller versions in 1866.

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Object details

Title: Le Réveil (Venus and Psyche)
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Date: 1866
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Kunstmuseum Bern
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1128
Original image: 1198 × 962 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Gustave Courbet. Le Réveil (Venus and Psyche). 1866. Kunstmuseum Bern. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1128/