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Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La jeune baigneuse (The Young Bather) 1866 Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The traditional theme of women bathing attracted Courbet’s attention repeatedly in the 1860s. This scene revisits a…