Realism Naturalism In the service of?
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The Bridge at Mantes
Wilhelm Leibl Three Women in a Village Church,
Wilhelm Leibl Head of a Peasant Woman, 1879
Jean-Francois Millet The Gleaners, 1857
According to Millet, the event depicted in Masaccio’s fresco led to the scene which Millet so beautifully describes. The fall of man has caused man to toil for his bread.
Jean-Francois Millet The Winnower, 18487
Jean-Francois Millet Trussing Hay, 1850
Rosa Bonheur The Horse Fair,
Rosa Bonheur Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, 1849 Bonheur is an academic painter: smooth illusionism, conservative themes, balanced compositional scheme; Bonheur offers the viewer a reassuring image of the continuity of agrarian life.
How different are these two images in their argument?
John Constable The Hay-Wain 1821
Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers, 1849
Vincent Van Gogh The Potato Eaters 1885
Gustave Courbet
Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet Young Ladies by the River Seine
Honore Daumier photograph by Nadar Nadar Elevating Photography to Art
Thomas Couture Romans of the Decadence 1847
Raphael The School of Athens 1509
Édouard Manet photographed by Bertha Morisot
Édouard Manet Portrait of Emile Zola, 1868
Édouard Manet The Balcony, 1868–1869