Room IV · Realism
Gustave Courbet
The Stone Breakers, 1849
Oil on canvas · 257 × 165 cm (101.2 × 65 in)
Signed
$5,100
Acquire- Delivered in 7–14 days within France, 14–28 days worldwide.
- Insured door to door by a fine-art courier the house appoints.
- Delivery and import duties shown before you pay.
- Certified with the Living Seal.
- Authentic, forever.
- Seven days to confirm it arrived as described.
- Pay by card, or by bank transfer above $25,000.
I · Why it is in the house
Selected for the courage of the plain fact — labour at the scale of history.
II · What comes with it
The Living Seal
Certified with the artist's thumbprint and the wax seal of the house.
Authentic, forever
The guarantee passes to every owner recorded after you.
Yours when you confirm
You have seven days from delivery to confirm it arrived as described.
Insured delivery by a fine-art courier the house appoints · 7–14 days domestic, 14–28 days international.
III · Where your $5,100 goes
$3,927 goes to Gustave.
The house keeps 23 — the number that was waiting for us. We were both born on a 23rd, the idea arrived on a 23rd, and Stendhal himself was born on the 23rd of January. Payment processing, by card or bank transfer, is added at checkout, paid by the buyer, and never taken from the artist's share.
IV · About the artist
Gustave Courbet
France
French, 1819–1877. Courbet declared that painting must show only what the eye can see, and founded Realism on the visible world.
