• The Stone Breakers (French: Les Casseurs de pierres), also known as Stonebreakers, was an 1849 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet.
  • In conclusion, The Stone-breakers painting is best known for its role in the realism revolution and for being one of Gustave Courbet’s best works.
  • The Stone Breakers (1849) by Gustave Courbet was created to portray the intense labor that the poorer portion of the population endured daily.
  • The Stone Breakers (Les Casseurs de pierres), 1849 by Gustave CourbetThe two stone breakers in Courbet’s painting are set against a low hill of the sort...
  • If we look closely at Courbet’s painting The Stonebreakers of 1849 (painted only one year after Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their influential pamphlet...
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  • The academic jury selecting work for the 1855 Salon rejected 3 of the 14 paintings that Courbet submitted (including Stone Breakers and Burial at Ornans)...
  • The Stone Breakers summarises just precisely what we remember Gustave Courbet for - honest depictions of rural life.