Gustave Courbet, 1850 - Firemen current fire - fine art print

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In 1850 Gustave Courbet made the modern art masterpiece. The piece of art was painted with the size: Height: 388 cm, Width: 580 cm and was painted with the technique of Oil painting. Nowadays, this artpiece forms part of the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris's art collection, which is located in Paris, France. With courtesy of - Petit Palais Paris (public domain).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. The painter, sculptor, communard Gustave Courbet was an artist, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Realism. The French artist lived for a total of 58 years - born in 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and died in the year 1877.

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A fire started in a Paris street at night. At right, a worker in a blue smock accompanied by a guide firefighters officer to the scene of the accident while a couple of bourgeois pass, indifferent. Left, a woman of the people holding a young child in her arms seems to interpellate firefighters running through the crowd with their fire pump. In the foreground of the composition, a worker has fallen to the ground and appears sketch a hand gesture of protection.

This unique urban scene by Gustave Courbet was painted between 1850 and 1851 in the barracks of Poissy. For the sake of realism, the artist would have asked firefighters to perform a sham starting at torchlight. During the coup of December 2, 1851, the uprising in the barracks of Poissy ended the project after a year of work. This ambitious work, but unfinished complex was found rolled up in the studio to the death of the painter.

Genre scene, Street Scene, Night Scene, Firefighter, Crowd, Occupation, Mother - Motherhood

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