The Stone Breakers

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What Wikipedia says

The Stone Breakers (French: Les Casseurs de pierres), also known as Stonebreakers, was an 1849 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Gustave Courbet. Now destroyed, the image remains an often-cited example of the artistic movement Realism.

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Image: Gustave Courbet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.