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Dimensions. 46 cm × 55 cm (18 in × 22 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. L'Origine du monde ("The Origin of the World") is a picture painted in oil on canvas by the French artist Gustave Courbet in 1866. It is a close-up view of the vulva and abdomen of a naked woman, lying on a bed with legs spread.
At the commission of his wealthy Turkish patron, Khalil Bey, who was a former diplomat and perhaps history’s best known collector of erotic art, Courbet painted a series of erotic works, including The Sleepers, featuring a loving lesbian couple asleep in bed, and L’Origine du Monde, which depicts a woman’s belly, spread legs, genitals, breast, erect nipple, and pubic hair, with her head ...
The first owner of The Origin of the World, who probably commissioned it, was the Turkish-Egyptian diplomat Khalil-Bey (1831-1879). A flamboyant figure in Paris Society in the 1860s, he put together an ephemeral but dazzling collection devoted to the celebration of the female body, before he was ruined by his gambling debts.
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The history of Earth is divided into four great eons, starting 4,540 mya with the formation of the planet. Each eon saw the most significant changes in Earth's composition, climate and life. Each eon is subsequently divided into eras, which in turn are divided into periods, which are further divided into epochs . Eon.
