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The Woodcutters

A work made of charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan.
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  • A work made of charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan.

Date:

1860

Artist:

Gustave Courbet
French, 1819–1877

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gustave Courbet

Title

The Woodcutters

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1860

Medium

Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan

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%"

Dimensions

57.7 × 46.1 cm (22 3/4 × 18 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2012.76

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