The two men depicted in this 1849 painting are not models but actual workers in the title profession.
The two men depicted in this 1849 painting are not models but actual workers in the title profession. The artist met them while walking down the road and painted them as they were, down to the tears in their tattered clothes. The grass beside the road slopes up slightly, but shadows hide most of the background. Seemingly out of place is a pot resting on the right edge of the painting. The older man wears a hat and wields a hammer while kneeling. The younger man stands, holding a basket of stones. FTP, name this Realist painting by Gustave Courbet.          |
The two men depicted in this 1849 painting are not models but actual workers in the title profession.
The {Stone Breakers}