In the artist’s letters to his lover Mathilde Carly de Svazzema spoke about sex and sexuality with a notable lack of “modesty.”
The mayor’s office of Bensançon (116,000 inhabitants), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, has discovered in an attic of the municipal library a hundred intimate, deeply erotic and pornographic letters written by Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) to one of his…
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