About this artwork
Jean Journet was a nineteenth-century secular evangelist who traveled throughout France and Belgium preaching on behalf of the Fourier movement, a form of utopian socialism that aspired to the creation of social harmony. This portrait of Journet is surrounded by verses intended to be sung by the reader as a moralizing call to change. Courbet’s use of this format of text combined with image-more commonly found in crude, popular woodcuts-signals his solidarity with the movement and its popular roots.
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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 Apostle Jean Journet
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1850
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Medium
- Lithograph in black on wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 24 × 17 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 47.2 × 34.2 cm (18 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1940.88
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/36828/manifest.json
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