A History of European Art

The Third-Class Carriage, c. 186365, oil on canvas, 25 ¾ x 35 ½”

(65.4 x 90.2 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City,

New York, USA.

Wow! Amazing! Gosh! Superb! It speaks! (Fichtre!... Épatant!...

Sapristi!... Superbe!... ça parle!), from In the Studios, 1862, lithograph,

10 x 8 ½” (25.4 x 21.5 cm).

Jean-François Millet:

The Gleaners, 1857, oil on canvas, 33 x 44” (83.5 x 110 cm), Musée du

Louvre, Paris, France.

The Sower, c. 1850, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 ½” (101.6 x 82.6 cm),

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Loyette, et al., Honoré Daumier.

Rubin, Gustav Courbet.

1. Discuss the historical importance of Daumier’s lithographs.


2. How would you differentiate Realism and Naturalism?

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Questions to Consider