Realism in France

The City and the Street

Daumier, early Manet and the changing face of Paris

In Paris, Realism meant the people of the street and the politics of the day. Daumier drew both for the press; Manet painted the city's poor and passers-by; a photographer recorded streets about to be torn down.

• Daumier's political prints
• Daumier's paintings of working Paris
• Manet's street people, singer and dead bullfighter
• Photographing old Paris

Works in this part

• Le Ventre législatif (The Legislative Belly)
• Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834
• The Third-Class Carriage
• The Laundress
• The Old Musician
• The Dead Toreador
• Street Singer
• Rue Saint-Jacques

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Public Domain (Met Open Access)