The Apostle Jean Journet
Gustave Courbet · 1850 · Lithograph in black on wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Apostle Jean Journet is a public-domain illustration by Gustave Courbet, dated 1850. Lithograph in black on wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Apostle Jean Journet” (1850) 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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