Painting #130 - French Realism

Realism in France 

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875, French)

A View near Volterra
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (70 x 95.5 cm) 1838
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Not a plenir-air, but a recollection of impressions.

Ville d’Avray
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (49 × 65 cm) 1865
- National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) 

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 

He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air (户外寫生) innovations of Impressionism.
* The invention of metal paint tubes not only preserves the paints but also enables their portability for plein-air of landscapes.

Honoré Daumier (1808–1879, French) 

The Third-Class Carriage
- Honoré Daumier
- oil on canvas (65 × 90 cm) 1860's
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) 

The Landscapists,
One landscape artist copies nature, the second copies the first
- Daumier in 1865
- art print (31 x 23 cm) 1978 

Jean-François Millet (1814–1875, French)

The Gleaners  

- Millet 

- oil on canvas (84 × 112 cm) 1857 
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris) 

Woman Sewing by Lamplight
- Jean-François Millet
- oil on canvas (100 x 82 cm) 1870-72
- The Frick Collection (private, NYC) 

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877, French) 

The Painter's Studio
- Courbet
- oil on canvas (361 × 598 cm) 1855
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris) 

The Meeting ("Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet") 
- Gustave Courbet
- oil on canvas (132 x 151 cm) 1854
- Musée Fabre (Montpellier) 

Arrogant Courbet greeted by his patron, with humble servant and dog.

Source: Wikipedia