The Stone Breakers
| The Stone Breakers | |
|---|---|
 Destroyed during World War II | |
| Artist | Gustave Courbet |
| Year | 1849 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 170 cm × 240 cm (65 in × 94 in) |
The Stone Breakers (French: Les Casseurs de pierres) was an 1849 painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet.[1] It was a work of social realism, depicting two peasants, a young man and an old man, breaking rocks.[2][3]
The painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850. It was destroyed during World War II, along with 154 other pictures, when a transport vehicle moving the pictures to the castle of Königstein, near Dresden, was bombed by Allied forces in February 1945.
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