the French artist Gustave Courbet. Largely self-taught and extravagantly self-confident, Courbet was barely 30 when he caused an uproar at the Salon of 1850-51 with his 6.6m-long, defiantly dreary ...

In his new book, Claude Schopp explains how a chance discovery led him to identify the woman in the painting Scandal has never been far from Gustave ... works of art history depicting a naked ...