The Woodcutters
Gustave Courbet
1860
Medium
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan
Dimensions
57.7 × 46.1 cm (22 3/4 × 18 3/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185839
About the Artist
Gustave Courbet · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who revolutionized 19th-century art as the founding figure of the Realism movement. Born in Ornans, a small town in the Doubs region of France, Courbet came from a prosperous farming family with anti-monarchical roots—his maternal grandfather had participated in the French Revolution. This background shaped his lifelong commitment to dep...