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 →