P".""'ts Retumi ng to r;1:og"y from ,\hr kct (/8 50)
On' if ,br" R,alirr pictU""bar ,"ad< CotlTk, I ""'"' ar ,11< 18 5()'" 51
Pari, SQ/on. TI1< otb,r r~·. "Yr' The: Stontbo-eakLTs, and bi, [nTI
,""""mm'Q/ "'m'/lJ" Rurial a' Om. ns. All ,br" painting, 'Nchd tb, puNic
kcau" ordi""ry t-iDa!."' "Yr' pr"",ud in a ttyl' tbat nmhd tbn" ,,·itb
,b,ir 'k,,",'. Opinionaud and pr<1tYJCa,ity a, ,,~r, C()tlTk, ". ..,-purring an
a' tb, ""'if< of JrJcial ",-0/",;""\ Vhen ,he jill)' ~" the 1855 I'aris Uni,'crsal 11lj-',h(~ogie:t1 ".-his,u";cal ,hemes, C ourbe, ''''
Exhibi'ion rejected Courl)e,'s Tb, Pain"r', ou' '0 demolish ,he ,ndi,ional hierarehies of
S,udi{J, IlC(~'1c ridiruled him ~" ha"ing se, up ""hi"'" ma"." and increase ,ho:: eml",,,is On
his Own show in a 'P.,.ilion of Rnlism' , pun:ly fo.-mal ,'aluts, l ie felt ,he acnlal C"m"!S
Ilowe"'r, One "fhis Ii:." supl><}("''''' Del ....... );.., and pain' ",ere :IS muth his suhj<'C' ma"cr as the
publie:tlly ,k.::bred: " InC)' ha,'e re;Cct",J On< of ""'ne he depicted, Such ideas we", ",ell " he.d
'he mc..;, outsttnding I>oin,ing< of ,he times.' of 'heir ,ime and Courb", 's d""I"a,ion of
Ry gi"ing "hing< :IS ,her arc' ,he ere .. i,'e ind<l,endence opened a dom for
monum<'n,al '",a",ltn' nonnall)· .<,,:-onled to M~"", and ,he Imp.-es,i".,i,ts,