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Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866. Creator: Gustave Courbet.

Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866. Creator: Gustave Courbet.

2-989-392 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl, 1866. Additional Info: The Irish girl in this painting is Joanna Hiffernan. She modelled for the painter James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, with whom she lived. Courbet met her in Normandy in 1865 and they became very close friends. In the painting she pulls her hand through her loose, red hair, while gazing at her reflection in the mirror – a subject charged with symbolism associating to themes such as provocative sensuality, vanity or the transience of beauty.

Image Details

People Information

Creator
  1. Gustave Courbet, attributed to: French: Artist, painter, designer
Subject
  1. Joanna Hiffernan: Irish: Model
People Related
  1. James Abbott McNeill Whistler: American: Artist, painter, printmaker
Medium
  1. Oil on canvas
Picture Type
  1. Painting
  2. Portrait
Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe Sweden

  1. 62 00 00 N , 015 00 00 E
Category Hierarchy

Artistic Representations Portraits

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4960x4063
File Size : 59,041kb

Aliases

  1. NM 2543
  1. E
  1. 1080001615
  1. 2-989-392
  1. 2989392
  1. NM 2543
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