The Stone Breakers
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The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Stone Breakers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549048 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Stone Breakers Context triple: [Gustave Courbet, notableWork, The Stone Breakers]
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A.
A Burial at Ornans
A Burial at Ornans is a monumental mid-19th-century realist painting by Gustave Courbet that depicts an ordinary provincial funeral with unprecedented scale and unidealized detail, challenging academic conventions of history painting.
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B.
The Milkmaid
The Milkmaid is a celebrated 17th-century Dutch genre painting by Johannes Vermeer depicting a domestic servant quietly pouring milk in a kitchen interior.
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C.
The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters is a dark-toned 1885 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a peasant family sharing a humble meal, often regarded as one of his first major works.
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D.
Bathers at Asnières
Bathers at Asnières is a large-scale 1884 oil painting by Georges Seurat that depicts working-class Parisians relaxing by the Seine and is considered a key early example of his innovative approach to color and composition.
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E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Stone Breakers Target entity description: The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
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A.
A Burial at Ornans
A Burial at Ornans is a monumental mid-19th-century realist painting by Gustave Courbet that depicts an ordinary provincial funeral with unprecedented scale and unidealized detail, challenging academic conventions of history painting.
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B.
The Milkmaid
The Milkmaid is a celebrated 17th-century Dutch genre painting by Johannes Vermeer depicting a domestic servant quietly pouring milk in a kitchen interior.
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C.
The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters is a dark-toned 1885 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a peasant family sharing a humble meal, often regarded as one of his first major works.
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D.
Bathers at Asnières
Bathers at Asnières is a large-scale 1884 oil painting by Georges Seurat that depicts working-class Parisians relaxing by the Seine and is considered a key early example of his innovative approach to color and composition.
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E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
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realist painting ⓘ |
| artisticTheme |
anti‑romanticism
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labor ⓘ poverty ⓘ social realism ⓘ working class ⓘ |
| artStyleCharacteristic |
earthy color palette
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monumental treatment of ordinary subjects ⓘ rough brushwork ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | unknown patron ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| criticReception |
controversial at time of first exhibition
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criticized by others for ugliness and lack of ideal beauty ⓘ praised by some for honesty of depiction ⓘ |
| depicts |
manual laborers
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rural labor ⓘ stone breakers ⓘ |
| destroyedIn | 1945 ⓘ |
| destructionEvent | World War II ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Paris Salon ⓘ |
| exhibitionYear |
1850
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1851 ⓘ |
| firstOwner | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
challenged romanticized portrayals of rural life
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pioneering work of Realism ⓘ |
| inception | 1849 ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of social realism in painting
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later realist artists ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | France ⓘ |
| lostOrDestroyed | true ⓘ |
| medium | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
absence of idealization
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focus on contemporary everyday subject matter ⓘ life‑size scale of figures ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | Les Casseurs de pierres ⓘ |
| portrays |
anonymous workers
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back‑breaking physical labor ⓘ non‑idealized human figures ⓘ |
| previousLocation |
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
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surface form:
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
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| setInPeriod | mid‑19th century France ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | rural working class in France ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
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Subject: The Stone Breakers Description of subject: The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
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