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Gustave Courbet

Madame Frederic Breyer (Fanny Hélène Van Bruyssel, 1830–1894)

1858
Oil on canvas
91.4 × 72.7 cm (36 × 28.6 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 809

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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