Jean Desire Gustave Courbet - The Stone Breakers Canvas Print

The Stone Breakers by Jean Desire Gustave Courbet. Great painting titled The Stone Breakers, made by Jean Desire Gustave Courbet. About Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. His first works were an Odalisque suggested by the writing of Victor Hugo and a Lélia illustrating George Sand, but he soon abandoned literary influences, choosing instead to base his paintings on observed reality. Among his paintings of the early 1840s are several self-portraits, Romantic in conception, in which the artist portrayed himself in various roles.