Gustave Courbet · 1853
The Wrestlers
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Two muscular, nearly naked men grapple on the grass of a Paris hippodrome, one bearded wrestler gripping the other's head, with a crowd and a flag-draped grandstand behind them under a blue sky. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Up to 16 × 21.2 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Wrestlers
Courbet first showed The Wrestlers at the Paris Salon of 1853 as the pendant to The Bathers. Documents show it depicts a match in the former hippodrome on the Champs-Elysees. Bought in 1908 by the Hungarian collector Ferenc Hatvany, it entered the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest in 1952.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
All Gustave Courbet prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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