The Woodcutters
Gustave Courbet · 1860 · Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Woodcutters is a public-domain drawing by Gustave Courbet, dated 1860. Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Woodcutters” (1860) gives an ordinary subject — labor, a funeral, or a local landscape — the size once reserved for history painting.
About the artist
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French Realist who painted stone breakers, funerals, and the landscape of his home region at the scale once reserved for history painting.
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