 Complete the following phrase:  Courbet first exhibited the work at the Paris Salon in April 1852 entitled The Village Maids give alms to a cowherd in a valley near Ors - this was the first time in thirty years he had first exhibited a work there. It was immediately bought by the duc de Morny despite a public and press polemic against the work - for example, the art critic Théophile Gautier expressesd reservations and felt the canvas was under-finished, whilst Gustave Planche, Eugène Loudun and Louis Énault felt it flouted the rules of perspective in the smallness of the figures relative to the cows - they also held the portrayal of the young women to be rather ugly and incongruously diminished. The painting was displayed again in the 1855 