1. Directions: Write down the claim. Then, choose the best work—record the title, artist, and date. Provide bullets that offer evidence to support your choice.

2. In this work, the artist deliberately avoids idealizing the laboring peasants in order to draw attention to the arduous monotony of their work.

3. Jean-Francois Millet The Gleaners, 1857 Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers, 1849

4. The asymmetrical composition and patterned effect of the overall design reveals that the artist was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints.

5. Claude Monet Wheatstacks 1891 Mary Cassatt The Boating Party 1893

6. The deliberate fracturing of the viewer’s stable one-point perspective is meant to powerfully focus the viewer on the implied subject of the work.

7. Édouard Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 1882 Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street, A Rainy Day 1877

8. The abrupt framing of this composition suggests the influence of photography on the artist.

9. John Singer Sargent The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 1882 Edward Degas Viscount Lepic and His Daughters 1873