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
Tags
HuntingDeerHornsMenDogs
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...