Gustave Courbet’s infamous “The Origin of the World,” an intimate portrait of a female model’s nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866.

Art World A French Court Rules That Facebook Was Wrong to Censor Gustave Courbet’s Provocative ‘Origin of the World’ The social media giant will not, however, have to pay the suggested ...

Gustave Courbet, L’Origine du monde (Origin of the World) (1866) Photo: Courtesy Musée d’Orsay. The museum’s administration was predictably unimpressed by this art historical intervention.

An unknown art buff has reportedly found the missing "face" of one of the world most famous paintings, The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet. Courbet's 1866 painting famously depicts the ...

The subject of Gustave Courbet's controversial painting of the female genitalia has been identified! Irishwoman Joanna Hifferman was the lover of Courbet's friend James Whistler. Courbet's ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the ...

Two women Monday sprayed the words "MeToo" on a 19th-century painting of a woman's vagina by French artist Gustave Courbet in a stunt by a performance artist, a museum and the artist said.