The Young Bather, 1866, Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 38 1/4 in. (130. 2 x 97. 2 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819?1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), The traditional theme of women bathing attracted Courbet's attention repeatedly in the 1860s. This scene revisits a motif that excited a furor of controversy when the artist first broached it a decade earlier: a realistically fleshy nude enjoying herself at a woodland spring