◧ Artist: Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
◧ Country: France
◧ Title/Year: [The Wrestlers] 1853
◧ Medium: Oil on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 252 × 198 cm (99 × 78")
◧ Museum: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (Hungary)
◧ Date of Issue: May 28, 1969
◧ Face Value: 5 Hungarian forint
It was first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1853 as the pendant to The Bathers. In a letter to his parents dated 13 May 1853, Courbet said of [The Wrestlers] that "I have covered their nudity and [the critics] have not yet said anything good or bad about it".
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