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CourbetStoneBreakers

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Image ID :	2863589782
View/Description :	Photograph of destroyed canvas
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Notes :	unlabeled clipping in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Photo Archive
Rights Owner :	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Photo Archive, 225 South Street, Williamstown MA, 01267
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URL to larger image :	http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2863589782_d81f9289f2_o.jpg

Work ID :	CourbetStoneBreakers
Title :	The Stone-Breakers Stone Breakers Stonebreakers
Creator/Agent :	Courbet, Gustave [ULAN]
Date (of work) :	1849-1850
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Location/Museum :	destroyed 1945 Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany [FORMER]
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Description :	A man and a youth in soiled work clothes break stones with hand tools in a bleak countryside, their backs toward the viewer.
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Inscription :	signed lower left: G. Courbet
Work Type :	Painting
Measurements :	165 x 257 cm
Material :	oil on canvas
Technique :	Easel painting [AAT]
Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Realist [AAT]
Cultural Context :	French
Subject :	World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war Laborers Quarries and quarrying Realism Child labor Stones Figures -- Male World wars [AAT] Figures [AAT] Labor [AAT] Unskilled workers [AAT] Hand tool [AAT] Stonework [AAT] Child [AAT]
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Text Reference :	http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarkvr/2863589782/in/pool-visualresources
Keywords :	labor, toil, rustic, rural, shoe, clog, basket, peasant, accident
Notes :	Exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1850. The Stone-Breakers was destroyed, along with 154 other paintings, when a transport vehicle moving the paintings to the castle of Konigstein in Germany was bombed by Allied forces in February of 1945 during World War II.