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Gustave Courbet

The Woodcutters

1860
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, altered to tan
57.7 × 46.1 cm (22.7 × 18.1 in)

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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026

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