© Ashmolean Museum
The Young Stonebreaker
Artist: Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 1865
Materials: black crayon & white chalk on paper
Dimensions: 29.5 x 21.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £16,000 (Total: £49,608; tax remission)
Vendor: Through David Carritt Limited
Review number: 4474 (1997)
Provenance:
Aglami family; Serge Rogoff; Fitz Gross thence by descent
Description:
Drawing depicting a young stonebreaker, full length from behind. He wears pinstripped trousers held by one diagonal brace and a white shirt. He is balancing a basket of stones on one thigh.
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