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tacocat  ·  2675 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gustave Courbet: Calm Seas - 1873

The full title of that second one: The Artist's Studio, a real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life

That's the hand of God from Michelangelo's Birth of Man holding the paint brush. In case there was any doubt about his sense of self importance after reading the title.