According to postcard sales, it is the second most popular work in the Musée d'Orsay. Here it is in much higher resolution.
It's all very scandalous and controversial and I'm not really sure why people get so excited about a sanitized, labia-less crotch shot that's another classic example of the male gaze that prevails in Western art, but hey! Vaginas are scary, especially when they have pubic hair.
Courbet was a chill dude, though.
That's not just pubic hair, that's a pubic forest.
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