Gustave Courbet
French, 1819-1877
The Apostle Jean Journet
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Gustave Courbet
French, 1819-18771850
The Apostle Jean Journet
Gustave Courbet French, 1819-1877 →lithographprint
Date
1850
Medium
Lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 17 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 47.2 × 34.2 cm (18 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
Jean Journet was a nineteenth-century secular evangelist who traveled throughout France and Belgium preaching on behalf of the Fourier movement, a form of utopian socialism that aspired to the creation of social harmony. This portrait of Journet is surrounded by verses intended to be sung by the reader as a moralizing call to change. Courbet's use of this format of text combined with image-more commonly found in crude, popular woodcuts-signals his solidarity with the movement and its popular roots.
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