Realism in France

Courbet

The painter who claimed the name Realist

Gustave Courbet, from the village of Ornans in eastern France, painted laborers, villagers and his own friends, often at the size of history painting. Critics attacked him, and he answered with his own exhibition and a manifesto.

• The road workers and the village funeral
• The great studio allegory
• Village girls, a roadside meeting and two young women by the Seine
• Landscape and sea from his own region and the coast

Works in this part

• The Stonebreakers
• A Burial at Ornans
• The Painter's Studio
• Young Ladies of the Village
• The Meeting (Bonjour Monsieur Courbet)
• Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer)
• The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noir; vallée de la Loue)
• The Wave

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