Young Communards in Prison (Les Fédérés à la Conciergerie)

1871

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, stumped
Dimensions: Overall: 10 3/16 x 6 1/2 in. (25.9 x 16.6 cm)
Collection no.: 1999.251
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Gustave Courbet. Young Communards in Prison (Les Fédérés à la Conciergerie). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Young Communards in Prison (Les Fédérés à la Conciergerie) — Gustave Courbet. 1871.

Medium: Black chalk, stumped. Dimensions: Overall: 10 3/16 x 6 1/2 in. (25.9 x 16.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Guy Wildenstein, 1999.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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