兩本書談Gustave Courbet 畫的The Origin of the World《人世之原 》或《世界 的源頭》：《人世之原：一幅名畫的傳奇 》2009；法國史學家揭開庫爾貝名畫《世界 的源頭》的神秘面紗 2018

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L'Origine du monde [The Origin of the World]. The first owner of The Origin of the World, who probably commissioned it, was the Turkish-Egyptian diplomat Khalil-Bey (1831-1879). A flamboyant figure in Paris Society in the 1860s, he put ...

《人世之原：一幅名畫的傳奇 》 北京：作家出版社，2006/2009

《人世之原 》是《人世之原 》畫品之收藏過程的歷史》一文說明《人世之原 的主角是何人。。

《法國史學家揭開庫爾貝名畫《世界 的源頭》的神秘面紗》 2018

法國史學家揭開庫爾貝名畫《世界 的源頭》的神秘面紗：台北：《藝術家》，Nov. 2018，p.377

A New Book Has Identified the Woman Who Posed for Courbet’s Scandalous ‘Origins of the World’

The sitter's identity has been shrouded in mystery for centuries.

Henri Neuendorf, September 25, 2018

But according to the Independent, a new book on the artist written by French historian Claude Schopp alleges that experts are “99 percent” certain the model was the Parisian dancer Queniaux. Art historians had previously thought that Irish model and Courbet’s lover Joanna Hiffernan sat for him for the painting. However, Hiffernan’s identity was frequently disputed because the painting’s dark pubic hair doesn’t match Hiffernan’s well-documented red hair.