Every Movement / France 1840 to 1880

Realism

Paint what is in front of you. Stonebreakers and funerals at the scale of a coronation, and no angels anywhere.

The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849. Formerly Dresden, destroyed 1945.
When
1840 to 1880
Where
Paris, Ornans
Who
Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Rosa Bonheur, Édouard Manet
Source
Wikipedia ↗ / Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
← Romanticism← Academic art
Grew out of
← Dutch Golden Age← Barbizon School
Led to
Impressionism →Social Realism →
Provoked
Symbolism →