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Gustave Corbet's Wounded Man
One of the paintings that corbet worked on, starting in the 18 forties, was one called the wounded man. This was another image of the artist himself, this time in the romantic role of a man reclining with his eyes closed after an injury. At one point, the hero in the image had been panied by a woman leaning over his shoulder. She is believed to have been based on virginie bine, who modelled for a lot of paintings for corbet during a roughly ten year long relationship. The two of them were not married, but they lived together as a couple. They had a son together named desire alfred emile. In the early 19 fift