/Erotica Curiosa

Sex in History

/Courbet and the Salon of 1864

Impropriety, Nudity, and Sapphic Sex

By Christina Voss

“I have heard that a painting of nude women by Courbet has been refused for reasons of impropriety,” wrote the painter Jean-Francois Millet to an art critic.

I have not seen the said painting and I cannot judge the motives those gentlemen of the jury may have had to do so...

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