1. Realism
Naturalism
In the service of?

2. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The Bridge at Mantes 1868-70
Corot used naturalism to inspire an almost religious reverence in his viewer; the carefully described scene is intended to transport the viewer. The more real the scene appears, the more power with which nature is invested.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The Bridge at Mantes

3. Wilhelm Leibl Three Women in a Village Church, 1878-1882

4. Wilhelm Leibl Head of a Peasant Woman, 1879

5. Jean-Francois Millet The Gleaners, 1857
What is gleaning?
Millet transforms the peasants into heroic figures, but is it “okay” to make such extreme poverty beautiful or heroic?

6. 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.

7. Jean-Francois Millet The Winnower, 18487

8. Jean-Francois Millet Trussing Hay, 1850

9. Rosa Bonheur The Horse Fair, 1853-1855

10. Rosa Bonheur Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, 1849
Bonheur is an academic painter: smooth illusionism, conservative themes, balanced compositional scheme, reassuring image of the continuity of agrarian life.
Rosa Bonheur Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines, 1849

11. How different are these two images in their argument?
July
Limbourg Brothers (Paul, Herman, Jean) Tres Riches Heures

12. Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers, 1849
The Stonebreakers 1849 oil on canvas, 165 x 257 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (destroyed)
Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers, 1849

13. Gustave Courbet

14. Gustave Courbet Burial at Ornans 1849-50 Gustave Courbet
Burial at Ornans oil on canvas, 315 x 668 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Gustave Courbet
Burial at Ornans

15. Gustave Courbet
Young Ladies by the River Seine oil on canvas, 174 x 206 cm Musée du Petit Palais, Paris

16. Honore Daumier
The Third-Class Carriage, c. 1862

17. Honore Daumier photograph by Nadar
Nadar Elevating Photography to Art

18. Édouard Manet
Olympia, 1863

19. Titian
Venus of Urbino, c. 1538

20. Édouard Manet photographed by Bertha Morisot

21. Édouard Manet
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863

22. Édouard Manet
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 1882

23. Édouard Manet Portrait of Emile Zola, 1868 Édouard Manet

24. 19th century Japanese print by Utamaro

25. Édouard Manet
Boating, 1874

26. Édouard Manet The Balcony, 1868–1869 Édouard Manet