The Stone Breakers
Grinding labour without varnish, hailed by Proudhon as socialist; destroyed in 1945
- Author
- Gustave Courbet
- Style
- Realism — Paint what you see: peasants, labourers and the provinces at the scale of history painting
- Century
- 19th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
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- 1830 Liberty Leading the People — Eugène Delacroix · Romanticism · Paris
- 1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
- 1824 Symphony No. 9 — Ludwig van Beethoven · Romanticism · Vienna
- 1849–1850 A Burial at Ornans — Gustave Courbet · Realism · Ornans
- 1856–1859 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo — Utagawa Hiroshige · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- 1856 Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert · Realism · Croisset, near Rouen
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