The Woodcutter (Hodler Full)
1910 · Oil on canvas · Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918)
- Year
- 1910
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 130 × 101 cm
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Movement
- Symbolism
A woodcutter in a striped shirt and green trousers swings an axe high above his head, his body thrown into a long diagonal between bare red-brown trunks; behind him the snowy ground and pale sky are almost white, broken only by an odd grey-blue oval cloud. Hodler painted this version in 1910. The figure began with a 1908 commission from the Swiss National Bank for the new 50-franc note; in 1910 Hodler showed a larger-than-life painting of it, which was an immediate success and brought orders for replicas. The Musée d'Orsay bought this canvas at auction in 2005.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
White snow, red-brown trunks and a man in mid-swing make an energetic picture for a study, office, hallway or cabin-style living room. Pair it with Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga at 18×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1910)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 18×24. Prints at 12×16, 18×24 in — 12×16 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 18×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.






























