Focus on Woman with a Parrot (Courbet) and discuss the abstract.
La Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) is an oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet. It was the first nude by the artist to be accepted by the Paris Salon in 1866 after a previous entry in 1864 was rejected as indecent. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city.
Gustave Courbet nude Metropolitan Museum of Art New York