Lecture 41: Realism—From Daumier to Courbet
Gustave Courbet:
The Artist’s Studio (Interior of My Studio: A Real Allegory of Seven
Years of My Life as a Painter), 185455, oil on canvas, 11’ 10” x 19’ 8”
(361 x 598 cm), Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
A Burial at Ornans, 1849, oil on canvas, 10’ 4” x 21’ 9” (315 x 668 cm),
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
The Stone Breakers, 1849 (destroyed 1945), oil on canvas, 6’ 2” x 9’ 9”
(1.9 x 3 m), formerly the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany.
Honoré Daumier:
At last the sun will shine on my potted plant... (Voila donc mon
pot de À eurs qui va avoir du soleil...), 1852, lithograph, 10 x 13 ¾”
(25.4 x 34.9 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA.
The Emigrants, 184849, plaster, 11 x 26” (28 x 66 cm), Musée du
Louvre, Paris, France.
The Emigrants, c. 186570, oil on canvas, 15 x 26” (38.1 x 67.95 cm),
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Freedom of the Press, 1834, lithograph, 12 x 17” (30.4 x 43 cm),
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.
Goodbye, my dear, I’m going to meet with my publishers (Adieu,
mon cher, je vasi chez mes editeurs), 1844, lithograph, 11 ½ x 8 ½”
(29.2 x 21.5 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA.
The Republic, 1848, oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 23 ½” (73 x 59.6 cm), Musée
du Louvre, Paris, France.
Rue Transnonain, 15 April 1834, 1834, lithograph, 11 ¼ x 17 ¼”
(28.5 x 44.1 cm), Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen,
Dresden, Germany.
Street Show, c. 1868, black chalk and watercolor on laid paper, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA.Works Discussed