The Stone Breakers
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The Stone Breakers (Les Casseurs de pierres) was an 1849–50 painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet, first presented in the Paris Salon of 1850. It was a work of social realism, depicting two peasants, a young man and an old man, breaking rocks.
It was destroyed during World War II, along with 154 other pictures, when a transport vehicle moving the pictures to the castle of Königstein was bombed by Allied forces in February 1945.
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