Young Communards in Prison (Les Fédérés à la Conciergerie)
Gustave Courbet
1871
Medium
Black chalk, stumped
Dimensions
Overall: 10 3/16 x 6 1/2 in. (25.9 x 16.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Guy Wildenstein, 1999
Accession Number
1999.251
Tags
PrisonsPrisonersMen
About the Artist
Gustave Courbet · 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...