What Painting Did Gustave Courbet Paint In 1849?
What Painting Did Gustave Courbet Paint In 1849? In 1849–50, Courbet painted The Stone Breakers (destroyed in the Allied Bombing of Dresden in 1945), which Proudhon admired as an icon of peasant life; it has been called “the first of his great works”. The painting was inspired by a scene Courbet witnessed on the roadside.