1853
oil
canvas
From the collection of Hungarian National Gallery
The Wrestlers is a 1853 oil by Gustave Courbet, a Realism work, held at Hungarian National Gallery.
The Wrestlers is a large oil painting made in 1853 by French artist Gustave Courbet. It is a genre scene that depicts a wrestling match. The work shows two men locked in French wrestling, a style based on Greco‑Roman techniques. Documents say the bout takes place in the old hippodrome on the Champs‑Élysées in Paris. Courbet’s choice of a huge canvas later inspired Alexandre Falguière’s 1875 painting of the same name. You can see it today in the Hungarian National Gallery.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: KOOR-bay; US: koor-BAY; French: ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.
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