Julie Curtiss's *D'après l'Origine du monde* (2016) is an acrylic and oil on canvas work that reimagines Gustave Courbet's infamous 1866 painting through Curtiss's signature lens of psychological tension and bodily estrangement. The work engages in a provocative dialogue with art historical notions of the female nude, fragmenting and recontextualizing the figure in a way that simultaneously references and subverts the male gaze. Curtiss's meticulous, polished technique lends the composition an unsettling stillness, blurring the boundary between desire and unease.