Realism to Post-Impressionism

Realism

Honore BalzacGustave Flaubert

Charles Baudelaire

Daumier, Gargantua, 1831.

Vernet, The Barricade, 1848.

Meissonier, Memory of Civil War or Barricade in the Rue de la Mortellaire,

June 1848, 1848.

Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830.

Daumier, The Uprising, c. 1848.

Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849.

Millet, The Sower, 1850.

Millet, The Gleaners, 1857.

Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-55.

Daumier, The Burden, 1855-56.

Daumier, Third Class Railway Carriage, 1864-65.

In his essay, Painter of Modern Life (1863) Baudelaire placed the artist-

dandy at the center of his world because he alone could reveal the

“eternal beauty and amazing harmony of life in the capital cities”, a beauty

and harmony drawn from the transitory and external manifestations

of urban life.

Guys, Two Women Wearing Blue Feathers and A Lady Walking, 1860s.

Courbet, Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer), 1856.

Manet, Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass),1863.

Titian (formerly attrib to Giorginone), Pastoral Concert, c. 1508.

Raimondi (after Raphael), Judgment of Paris, c. 1520.

Manet, Olympia, 1863.

Manet, Olympia, 1863.Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538.

Daumier, Avant le Peinture, in Charivari, 1865

(“Why the devil is that big red woman in chemise called

Olympia?”“Perhaps it’s the name of the

cat.”).

Cham (Charles Amédée de Noé), caricature

of Olympia in Charivari, 1865.

Harunobu, Geisha as Daruma Crossing the Sea,

mid- eighteenth century.

Cassatt, Maternal Caress, 1891.

Impressionism

Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1873.

haussmannization(Baron Haussmann)

flâneur

Rue Estienne, c. 1865.Marville, Rue Glatigny, Paris, 1865.

Marville, Avenue des Gobelins, c. 1870-71.

Pissarro, Boulevard du Montmartre, 1897.

Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873.

Morisot, Summer’s Day, 1879.

Renoir, La Moulin de la Galette, 1876.

Haussmann, Avenue de l’Opera Looking Toward the Louvre, c. 1880.

Marville, The Piercing of the Avenue de L’Opera, c. 1865.

Garnier The Opera House 1873.

Cassatt, Woman in a Loge (At the Opera), 1879.

Renoir, La Loge, 1874.

Cassatt, The Loge, 1880.

Manet, The Bar at the Folies Bergere, 1881.

Post-Impressionism

Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86.

Cezanne, Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, 1890s.

Cezanne, Mont St. Victoire, 1890s.

van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889.