The Wrestlers (Courbet)
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The Wrestlers (Courbet)
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The Wrestlers is a large 1853 painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. It shows two men engaged in 'French wrestling', inspired by Greco-Roman wrestling. Documents reveal that it shows a match in the former hippodrome on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. His choice of such a huge canvas inspired Alexandre Falguière's 1875 The Wrestlers. It was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853 as the pendant to The Bathers. In a letter to his parents dated 13
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Painting by Gustave Courbet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrestlers_(Courbet)
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2023-08-15T21:39:53Z
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