In the art world, the hammock was already in the early 19th Century found to enter. Gustave Courbet (born June 10, 1819) a French painter of realism, has painted one of the most famous painting with a hammock.

The convinced realist painting already in 1844 the painting with the sleeping woman in the hammock. The Realismums turned against the historicizing and idealized representations of classicism and romanticism. Painters sought the tangible world. Like this picture of Courbet. A particularly well-known image of realism. With great detail, the woman was depicted in the garden. This painting is now available as an art print, and very popular.

Hammock garden art Courbet

History of Gustav Courbet