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Charcoal burners (previously known as Wood splitters) is a 1886 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts.[1] The painting depicts three rural labourers "splitting and stacking timber for the preparation of charcoal".[1] Roberts, influenced by the Barbizon school and Jules Bastien-Lepage, would later return to the theme of rural men working in his works A break away! and Shearing the Rams.[1]

Charcoal burners
Artist	Tom Roberts
Year	1886
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	61.4 cm × 92.3 cm (24.2 in × 36.3 in)
Location	Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat

Roberts painted the picture from sketches made at a camp he made with Frederick McCubbin at Box Hill, then a rural locality east of Melbourne.[1]

The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1961.[1]

The work was stolen from the gallery in 1978. A ransom was paid the following year for the safe recovery of the painting from a park in Sydney.[2]

References

External links

• Wood splitters – Art Gallery of Ballarat

На других языках

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- [en] Charcoal burners

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[ru] Рубщики дров (картина)

«Рубщики дров» (англ. Wood splitters; Charcoal burners) — картина австралийского художника Тома Робертса, написанная в 1886 году[1]. Находится в Художественной галерее Балларата в Австралии.

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