Keywords: Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl (Gustave Courbet) - Nationalmuseum - 19604.tif Artwork Creator Gustave Courbet Jo the Beautiful Irish Girl The Irish girl in this painting is Joanna Heffernan She modelled for the painter James Abbott MacNeill Whistler with whom she lived Courbet met her in Normandy in 1865 and they became very close friends In the painting she pulls her hand through her loose red hair while gazing at her reflection in the mirror a subject charged with symbolism associating to themes such as provocative sensuality vanity or the transience of beauty Courbet made three other versions of this painting This is the original version which belonged to his estate when he died in 1877 IrlÀndskan i denna mÄlning hette Joanna Heffernan Hon var modell till mÄlaren James Abbott MacNeill Whistler som hon ocksÄ sammanlevde med Courbet lÀrde kÀnna henne i Normandie 1865 och de kom att stÄ varandra nÀra I mÄlningen för hon handen genom sitt utslÀppta röda hÄr samtidigt som hon betraktar sig i en spegel ett symbolladdat motiv som förknippades med teman som utmanande sensualism fÄfÀnga eller skönhetens förgÀnglighet Courbet utförde ytterligare tre varianter av mÄlningen Denna ursprungliga version hade han kvar i sin Àgo Ànda till sin död 1877 header The Irish girl in this painting is Joanna Heffernan She modelled for the painter James Abbott MacNeill Whistler with whom she lived Courbet met her in Normandy in 1865 and they became very close friends In the painting she pulls her hand through her loose red hair while gazing at her reflection in the mirror a subject charged with symbolism associating to themes such as provocative sensuality vanity or the transience of beauty Courbet made three other versions of this painting This is the original version which belonged to his estate when he died in 1877 IrlÀndskan i denna mÄlning hette Joanna Heffernan Hon var modell till mÄlaren James Abbott MacNeill Whistler som hon ocksÄ sammanlevde med Courbet lÀrde kÀnna henne i Normandie 1865 och de kom att stÄ varandra nÀra I mÄlningen för hon handen genom sitt utslÀppta röda hÄr samtidigt som hon betraktar sig i en spegel ett symbolladdat motiv som förknippades med teman som utmanande sensualism fÄfÀnga eller skönhetens förgÀnglighet Courbet utförde ytterligare tre varianter av mÄlningen Denna ursprungliga version hade han kvar i sin Àgo Ànda till sin död 1877 1866 Oil on canvas Olja pÄ duk Size cm 65 54 Framed Size cm 89 79 10 Institution Nationalmuseum Stockholm Signerad Gustave Courbet 66 accession number 19604 NM 2543 place of creation Nationalmuseum Nationalmuseum Stockholm cooperation project Licensed-PD-Art PD-old-auto PD-Nationalmuseum_Stockholm 1877 PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Courbet; Jo La Belle Irlandaise; Nationalmuseum Stockholm Jo La Belle Irlandaise Courbet 19th-century portrait paintings in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm French paintings in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm Media contributed by Nationalmuseum Stockholm 2016-10 |