Published: September 25, 2018
I refuse to accept the news that the Irish model may not be the sensual subject of Courbet’s 1866 painting L’Origine du monde – and my proof lies in a painting of her fully clothed
Poor Joanna Hiffernan. Her vagina may just have been written out of history. While there was no absolute proof – and one blazing bit of contradictory evidence – it was until now generally believed that this Irish model and artist posed for one of the most outrageous nudes of all time, Gustave Courbet’s 1866 painting L’Origine du monde. A new discovery by a French researcher suggests it is not her after all on that bed but a dancer called Constance Queniaux.
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