The Quarry (La Curée)
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Image: 7 7/16 × 5 7/8 in. (18.9 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 × 6 3/4 in. (21.4 × 17.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.36.71
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Gustave Courbet|Laurent Hotelin · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who revolutionized 19th-century art as the founding figure of the Realism movement. Born in Ornans, a small town in the Doubs region of France, Courbet came from a prosperous farming family with anti-monarchical roots—his maternal grandfather had participated in the French Revolution. This background shaped his lifelong commitment to dep...