Gustave Courbet, 1850 - Firemen current fire - fine art print

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Details of the art product

In 1850 Gustave Courbet made the modern art masterpiece. The piece of art was painted with the size: Height: 388 cm, Width: 580 cm and was painted with the technique of Oil painting. Nowadays, this artpiece forms part of the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris's art collection, which is located in Paris, France. With courtesy of - Petit Palais Paris (public domain).The creditline of the artwork is the following: . The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. The painter, sculptor, communard Gustave Courbet was an artist, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Realism. The French artist lived for a total of 58 years - born in 1819 in Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and died in the year 1877.

General specifications by Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris (© - by Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris - Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris)

A fire started in a Paris street at night. At right, a worker in a blue smock accompanied by a guide firefighters officer to the scene of the accident while a couple of bourgeois pass, indifferent. Left, a woman of the people holding a young child in her arms seems to interpellate firefighters running through the crowd with their fire pump. In the foreground of the composition, a worker has fallen to the ground and appears sketch a hand gesture of protection.

This unique urban scene by Gustave Courbet was painted between 1850 and 1851 in the barracks of Poissy. For the sake of realism, the artist would have asked firefighters to perform a sham starting at torchlight. During the coup of December 2, 1851, the uprising in the barracks of Poissy ended the project after a year of work. This ambitious work, but unfinished complex was found rolled up in the studio to the death of the painter.

Genre scene, Street Scene, Night Scene, Firefighter, Crowd, Occupation, Mother - Motherhood

Background information on the artwork

Title of the work of art: "Firemen current fire"
Categorization: painting
General term: modern art
Temporal classification: 19th century
Created in: 1850
Age of artwork: more than 170 years
Original medium: Oil painting
Artwork original size: Height: 388 cm, Width: 580 cm
Museum / location: Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris
Museum location: Paris, France
Web URL: Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris
License type of artwork: public domain
Courtesy of: Petit Palais Paris

Artist information

Artist name: Gustave Courbet
Also known as: G. Courbet, Courbet G., courbet gustave, קורבה גוסטב, Courbet Jean Desire Gustave, Kurbe Gi︠u︡stav, gustav courbet, Courbet Jean-Desire-Gustave, courbet gustav, courbert, Courbet, Gustave Courbet, Gust. Courbet, Courbet Gustave, courbet g.
Artist gender: male
Artist nationality: French
Jobs of the artist: sculptor, communard, painter
Home country: France
Classification: modern artist
Art styles: Realism
Age at death: 58 years
Year born: 1819
Town of birth: Ornans, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France
Died: 1877
City of death: La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland

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Structured item details

Print product type: fine art print
Reproduction: reproduction in digital format
Production process: digital printing
Provenance: made in Germany
Type of stock: on demand production
Product usage: wall décor, wall art
Image orientation: landscape format
Image ratio: length : width - 3 : 2
Aspect ratio meaning: the length is 50% longer than the width
Materials you can select: poster print (canvas paper), acrylic glass print (with real glass coating), canvas print, metal print (aluminium dibond)
Canvas on stretcher frame (canvas print) size options: 30x20cm - 12x8", 60x40cm - 24x16", 90x60cm - 35x24", 120x80cm - 47x31", 150x100cm - 59x39"
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Aluminium dibond print: 30x20cm - 12x8", 60x40cm - 24x16", 90x60cm - 35x24", 120x80cm - 47x31"
Frame: unframed art print

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