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The Wounded Man (French: L'Homme blessé) is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait created between 1844 and 1854 by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet. In it, Courbet depicts himself in a romantic theme as a suffering, heroic man. Originally, the composition featured a woman leaning on the artist's shoulder.
Wollheim's best-known work is probably Der Verwundete, 'The Wounded Man' (1919), one of the most horrifying images to be produced by any artist who had experienced the First World War. The oil on board painting shows a half-naked soldier writhing in agony after receiving a death-wound in the belly. [1]
The Wounded Man may refer to: The Wounded Man (painting) (L'Homme blessé), a 19th-century painting by Gustave Courbet; The Wounded Man (film) (L'Homme blessé), a 1983 French film directed by Patrice Chéreau; Wound Man, an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts in the Middle Ages
Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), c. 1845. Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 to Régis and Sylvie Oudot Courbet in Ornans (department of Doubs). Anti-monarchical feelings prevailed in the household. (His maternal grandfather fought in the French Revolution.) Courbet's sisters, Zoé, Zélie, and Juliette were his first models for drawing and ...
A Wounded Man being Treated in a Stable c. 1667. While paintings depicting scenes from the Dutch struggle against Spain were popular in the Netherlands during the second quarter of the 17th century, they tended to portray the lighter aspects of military life, such as soldiers playing games or drinking in taverns.
The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré.It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance.
The Wound Man is a surgical diagram which first appeared in European medical manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. [1] The illustration acted as an annotated table of contents to guide the reader through various injuries and diseases whose related cures could be found on the text's nearby pages.
Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man or Desperation) is an oil-on-canvas self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, produced from 1843 to 1845, during his stay in Paris.It depicts Courbet as a young man staring in front of him with wide eyes, grasping his hair in desperation.