Young Communards in Prison (Les Fédérés à la Conciergerie)
Gustave Courbet
1871
Medium
Black chalk, stumped
Dimensions
Overall: 10 3/16 x 6 1/2 in. (25.9 x 16.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Guy Wildenstein, 1999
Accession Number
1999.251
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
PrisonsPrisonersMen
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...