Approaching Courbet -- The early self-portraits -- Painter into painting: an after dinner at Ornans and the stonebreakers -- The structure of beholding in a burial at Ornans -- Real allegories, allegories of realism: the wheat sifters, the painter's studio, and the quarry, with an excursus on the death of the stag -- Courbet's femininity: chiefly paintings of women along with certain landscapes and related subjects -- Courbet's realism.
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