Talk:The Source (Courbet)

Idealized female form
The article says "Courbet painted the woman in such a way as to deviate from the contemporaneous idealized female form." This may need further explanation. What was the ideal form at the time? Ingres's painting of the same name shows its subject frontally, and Courbet's is from the rear, but what other differences would art critics wish to draw our attention to here, and which are significant? Beorhtwulf (talk) 12:18, 2 November 2022 (UTC)