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This painting belongs to the series of self-portraits in which the artist depicted himself in various moods. These self-portraits show the influence of Titian, Velázquez and Rembrandt whose works Courbet studied in the Louvre. In this romantic self-portrait Courbet is represented with Virginie Binet, the mother of his son born in 1847.
The first version is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.
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