Inside a Courbet Stone Quarry

“A panoramic scene painted in the style of Gustave Courbet's gritty Realist labor scenes, with palette-knife texture and a palette of granite gray, dust brown, and ash. Foreground shows two stone breakers in patched smocks, one swinging a heavy mallet, the other carrying a wicker basket of rubble. Midground reveals heaps of crushed stone and a cart half-loaded under a chalky cliff face. Background shows a steep quarry wall and a strip of dull pewter sky cut by a single wheeling crow.”