# Fonderie à Charleroi, la coulée

By [Maximilien Luce](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/maximilien-luce.md>), 1896.

Molten metal and workers' bodies make industrial labor monumental without romanticizing its physical pressure.

## Details

- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 130 × 162 cm
- Collection: [Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-d417f5df18642276.md>)

[View collection record](<https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/M0389000973>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Realism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/realism.md>), [Modernism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/modernism.md>)

## Image

![Foundry workers guide a stream of glowing molten metal through a dark industrial interior.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-d417f5df18642276-557b54bccd9daf55/full.jpg?v=a3c82e1e61959b493e588696cf14a7c88557dbdc26b7177f467eefb772aab0cb>)

## Sources & credits

- Pierre Poschadel via Wikimedia Commons; public domain.
- Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie
- [Image source](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maximilien_LUCE,_Fonderie_%C3%A0_Charleroi,_la_coul%C3%A9e,_1896,_mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27h%C3%B4tel-Dieu,_inv._98.04.06.JPG>)
- Artwork metadata drawn from Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu and French Ministry of Culture collection records; image provenance is recorded per artwork.

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