A French research claims he has identified the sitter of Courbet’s Origin of the World, claiming withe near certainty that the painting is of Constance Quéniaux, a dancer at the Paris Opera. “My only contribution was to make this object a subject,” says historian Claude Schopp. “Now she’s something else besides flesh. I wanted to restore a person.”

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