Study guide
Realism
An artwork-by-artwork guide to Realist art, 1830s–1890s, compiled from museum collection records.
From the 1830s to the 1890s, painters in France, Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States turned to ordinary people, real places and the news of their own time. This section follows them through forty-nine works, with the facts of each object drawn from museum collection records.
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