Realist Movement
The Realist movement began in the mid-19th century as a reaction to Romanticism and History painting. In favor of depictions of 'real' life, the Realist painters used common laborers, and ordinary people in ordinary surroundings engaged in real activities as subjects for their works. Its chief exponents were Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. According to Ross Finocchio, of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Realists used unprettified detail depicting the existence of ordinary contemporary life, coinciding in the contemporaneous naturalist literature of Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, and Gustave Flaubert.
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Gustave Courbet, Stone-Breakers, 1849.
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Gustave Courbet, After Dinner at Ornans, 1849
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Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850.
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Young Girl Reading, 1868, National Gallery of Art
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Edouard Manet, Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket), New Pinakothek, Munich, Germany, 1868
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Jean-François Millet, A Norman Milkmaid at Gréville, 1871.
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Jules Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884
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Jules Breton, The End of the Working Day, 1886-87
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