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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet, 1850. Oil on canvas, 165cm x 257cm. Destroyed.
The Stone Breakers (French: Les Casseurs de pierres) was an 1849–50 painting by the French painter Gustav Courbet.[1][2] It was a work of social realism, depicting two peasants, a young man and an old man, breaking rocks. The painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850. It was destroyed during World War II. The Stone Breakers was destroyed, along with 154 other pictures, when a transport vehicle moving the pictures to the castle of Königstein was bombed by Allied forces in February 1945.[2] References 1. ^ Courbet — The Stone Breakers, Old and New. 2. ^ a b The Stone-Breakers, Flickr. From Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
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