Mère Grégoire

Gustave Courbet

Painted

1855, reworked 1857–59

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Oil on canvas

Courbet's 1855 portrait of a Paris café keeper, behind her counter with a flower, greeting a customer. Painting an ordinary woman at the scale of an aristocratic portrait was his declaration of Realism. The name comes from a popular song; the model was a real café owner.

Object record (Art Institute of Chicago) · CC0

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