On the top right, light creeps over a tan bluff as if the sun were going down over the hill that serves as the setting for the painting.  
On the top right, light creeps over a tan bluff as if the sun were going down over the hill that serves as the setting for the painting.  A pot and some linen are strewn in the right foreground near some weeds, while the left side of the canvas shows various tools in a wheel barrow.  One figure wears a hat, while the other, in what appears to be striped pants held up by one filthy suspender, lifts a heavy load.  Both are turned away from the viewer and are intent on using their picks and hammers to perform the title activity.  Completed one year after the artist's similarly bleak The Burial at Ornans and later destroyed during the bombing of Dresden, FTP, identify this painting by Gustave Courbet.
On the top right, light creeps over a tan bluff as if the sun were going down over the hill that serves as the setting for the painting.  
The Stonebreakers