Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara

A broad, loosely brushed oil view of a marble quarry, its foreground heaped with pale, angular blocks. In the right foreground a man in a wide-brimmed hat and red neckerchief handles a coiled rope, while others work along a sloping track and ridge above, beneath rugged, sunlit cliffs.

Look closer: Small figures of workers are scattered far up the slope and along the ridge, barely visible in the distance.

Artist

John Singer Sargent

Date

1911

Medium

Oil on canvas

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3783 × 2947 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917