Portrait de Zélie Courbet 1842

"Portrait de Zélie Courbet" is a painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet, created in 1842. It depicts Zélie Courbet, the artist's sister, with a garland of ivy in her hair, and a simple, yet elegant, yellow garment. Courbet's early style, while influenced by Romanticism, already hints at the Realism that would characterize his later work, exemplified in the focus on detail and naturalism of the subject.