Paul Émile Chabas

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September Morn by Paul Émile Chabas, 1912

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Content Warning

Nudity

Public domain

Apparently this one was fairly ordinary until a New York shop window and a very offended moral crusader turned it into the scandal of 1913 — reproductions sold in the millions after that.

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