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Gustave Courbet - The Stone BreakersThe Stone BreakersGustave Courbet

Discover the masterpiece of Realism, The Stone Breakers, by Gustave Courbet.

Size and Media

The original size of The Stone Breakers was 170 cm × 240 cm (65 in × 94 in) and it was completed in oil on canvas. Unfortunately, the painting is now destroyed.

Style and Date

The ...

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Gustave Courbet - View of OrnansView of OrnansGustave Courbet

This landscape, probably painted in the mid-1850s, stands at the beginning of a long series of views of the countryside of Courbet’s native town. It may be identified by the distinctive church steeple rising above the cluster of houses along the banks of the river Loue. The cliff in the distance is ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Gustave Courbet - The MediterraneanThe MediterraneanGustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet first saw the Mediterranean in 1854, when he was the guest of his patron Alfred Bruyas, a wealthy collector from Montpellier. Busy completing portraits and other commissions for Bruyas, he seems to have painted only a few seascapes during this visit. The Phillips painting was probabl...

The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
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Gustave Courbet - A Burial at OrnansA Burial at OrnansGustave Courbet

This painting depicts the burial of Courbet’s great uncle in the small French town of Ornans, and it is considered to be one of the turning points in French art. The painting depicted the scene with an unflattering air, and it did not romanticize the depictions of grief and mourning, as in tradition...

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Gustave Courbet - Rocks at MouthierRocks at MouthierGustave Courbet

One of the most important painters in the development of modernism, Gustave Courbet linked his anti-idealist approach to art with his anticlerical and political beliefs. Critics considered his unconventional early works—monumental paintings of peasants and laborers—ugly and offensive. After 1855, wh...

The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
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Charles François Daubigny - HarvestHarvestCharles François Daubigny

About the Artist

Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) was a French artist and an important precursor of Impressionism. He was born in Paris into a family of painters and re...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Jean-François Millet - The GleanersThe GleanersJean-François Millet

'The Gleaners' (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-Francois Millet, painted in 1857. It depicts three peasant women who, after the harvest, pick up stray stalks of wheat in the field. The painting is known for its sympathetic portrayal of the lowest strata of rural society at the time; this w...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Théodore Rousseau (Pierre Etienne Théodore Rousseau) - The Pond (La Mare)The Pond (La Mare)Théodore Rousseau (Pierre Etienne Théodore Rousseau)

Painted during the artist’s most productive period, this landscape demonstrates Rousseau’s ability to paint naturalistic detail and vast receding space on a small scale. Rousseau renders a distant view of the wooded landscape as he sets the cattle, human figure, and trees on the far side of the pond...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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