page_title: Young Ladies of the Village
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Young Ladies of the Village / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Courbet, Gustave; Les demoiselles de village; Leeds Museums and Galleries; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/les-demoiselles-de-village-38627
context_page_description: Young Ladies of the Village or The Village Maids is an 1852 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is signed bottom left "G. Courbet".
context_section_description: In the centre three young women, modelled by Courbet's three sisters Zoé, Zélie and Juliette, offer a barefoot peasant girl something to eat. One of the three holds an umbrella against the sun. A dog stands behind the trio, whilst to the right two cows graze in a hilly landscape with rocky outcrops and a sunny blue sky. The landscape draws on real locations near Ornans, Courbet's native area, and were re-used by him in other landscapes with and without human figures.
  In the preparatory sketch for Young Ladies (1851, Leeds Art Gallery), the same figures are placed further back within a composition more dominated by vegetation and the landscape than the final work. The artist later redesigned the composition for an 1862 etching published by Alfred Cadart and Jules Luquet with different use of perspective 
  The same artist had previously painted the three sisters in his Three Sisters, the Stories of Grandmother Salvan (1846-1847, Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis).
caption: Young Ladies of the Village, 1851, Leeds Art Gallery
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