The Wrestlers is a large 1853 painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Documents reveal that it shows a match in the former hippodrome on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

In a letter to his parents dated 13 May 1853, Courbet said of The Wrestlers that "I have covered their nudity and [the critics] have not yet said anything good or bad about it".

By contrast, The Bathers divided the public and probably distracted attention from The Wrestlers.

[4] It was bought in 1908 by Ferenc Hatvany (1881–1958), a rich Hungarian, who had also acquired L'Origine du monde in 1913.