Woman with a Parrot

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Woman with a Parrot, 1866. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 51 x 77 in. (129.5 x 195.6 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Realism

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Museum title: Woman with a Parrot
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 x 77 in. (129.5 x 195.6 cm)
Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1819–1877

Realism c. 1840–late 1800s

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.