Paul Émile Chabas

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Erisava Staff Jul 22

September Morn by Paul Émile Chabas, 1912

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Nudity

September Morn

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

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.

Erisava: She just looks cold to me — so why did this cause such a fuss?