About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Gustave Courbet
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Title
- The Woodcutters
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1860
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Medium
- Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "G. Courbet"; inscribed recto, along bottom in graphite: "Aus Sammlung / Dr. Hermann Eißler, Wien / Hugo Helbing, München 18.II.930 / durch Otto Nathan [?] 18. II. 930 / Ludwigs Galerie / Gustave Courbet (1819–77) / Die Holzfäller / Kohle / voll bez.; lower right, in graphite: 4 / 1500. / +20%"
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Dimensions
- 57.7 × 46.1 cm (22 3/4 × 18 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2012.76
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/185839/manifest.json