Art Institute of Chicago

The Apostle Jean Journet

Gustave Courbet

Date

1850

Medium

Lithograph in black on wove paper

Culture

France

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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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