The Stone Breaker  1882

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23939888]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] Painted in Le Raincy, northeast of Paris, [i]The Stone Breaker[/i] is one of several small oil sketches on panel – called croquetons – that Georges Seurat painted between 1880 and 1883, very early in his career. Most of them are compact vignettes of laborers – reapers, gardeners, haymake...