A nude woman lies on her back on rumpled drapery, her long red hair spilling out, as a parrot alights on her raised hand. Courbet tuned the pose and smooth flesh to Salon taste, and in 1866 it became his first nude accepted there. Critics still objected to her tangled hair and cast-off clothes.
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The parrot's empty perch stands behind her, so the bird has just flown down to her fingers. The model was probably Joanna Hiffernan, who posed often for Courbet.
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