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The Stone Breakers
After Gustave Courbet, 1849.
An old man and a boy breaking rock by the roadside, life-size, with no moral attached. The canvas was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945, so every version of it now comes from a reproduction.
$149.99
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Restored, not copied
Cleaned of cracks and yellowed varnish, at full print resolution.
Out of copyright
Every work we sell is public domain in both the EU and the US.
Provenance
- Composition
- The Stone Breakers
- Original artist
- Gustave Courbet
- First published
- 1849
- Movement
- Realism
- Original
- The original hung in the Gemaldegalerie, Dresden. The canvas was destroyed in 1945, so it survives only in reproduction.
- Copyright
- Gustave Courbet died 1877. The copyright term has expired everywhere we sell.
The print itself
- Printing
- Giclee, with water-based inks.
- Paper
- 200gsm enhanced matt art paper.
- Glaze
- Acrylic, so it travels without the risk glass carries.
- Mount
- None. The print fills the frame edge to edge.
- Hanging
- Ready to hang, with the fittings already on the back.
- Sizes
- The size you choose is the print. The frame adds 20mm on every edge.
- Care
- Out of direct sunlight, at room temperature, away from radiators.
