Realism(s) in the 19th Century

Gustave Corbet, Manet, and Photography

Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849. Oil on canvas, 5’ 3” x 8’ 6”. Formerly at Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (destroyed in 1945). 1848 – uprising and Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”

Salon (Academy, 1648) of 1855: “boring” Pavilion of Realism, 1855

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Victorine Meurend, Eugene, Ferdinand Leenhof

Giorgione (and/or TITIAN?), Pastoral Symphony, ca. 1508. Oil on canvas, approx. 3’ 7” x 4’ 6”. Louvre, Paris.

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Victorine Meurend, Eugene, Ferdinand Leenhof nude vs. naked

Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Nymphs and a Satyr, 1873, oil on canvas

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

“A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth. These latter look like schoolboys on a holiday, perpetrating an outrage to play the man… This is a young man’s practical joke, a shameful, open sore.”

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 8’ 10”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Form, space Salon des Refuses, 1863

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 6’ 3”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ x 5’ 6”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 6’ 3”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 6’ 3”. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, 1863, New York Public Library

Louis-Jacques-Mande’ Daguerre (1789-1851) and William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the invention of the first practical photographic process, 1839

John Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1850-1851, London Great Exhibition of 1851

John Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1850-1851,

London

John Paxton, Crystal Palace,

1850-1851, London

John Paxton, Crystal Palace,

1850-1851, London

Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849. Oil on canvas, approx. 10’ x 22’. Louvre, Paris.

Salon (Academy, 1648) of 1855: “boring” Pavilion of Realism, 1855