A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1882 Manet, Édouard Buy this Art Print at AllPosters.com

Le Repos (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) Édouard Manet Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com

Gare St. Lazare, 1872-3 Manet, Édouard Buy this Giclee Print at AllPosters.com

Realism was born in a time of revolutionary upheaval across Europe in the mid-19thcentury. Romanticism gave way to truth and sincerity, and a belief that art should come from direct experience.  Courbet said, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one."  Below you will find the major French artists of this period arranged chronologically. For French art of other periods Art Directory.

Realism 

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•  French Realist Painting and the Critique... by Meixner

Gustave Courbet
 

La Rencontre ou Bonjour M... Gustave Courbet Buy From Art.com

La Rencontre or Bonjour Monsieur Cour... Gustave Courbet Buy From Art.com

Still Life with Apples and a Pomegran... Gustave Courbet Buy From Art.com

Girls on the Banks of the Seine, 1856... Gustave Courbet Buy From Art.com

Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
 

Portrait of M. and Mme. A... C douard Manet Buy From Art.com

Madame Manet on a Blue Sofa, 1874 C douard Manet Buy From Art.com

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• Manet : The Still Life Paintings

• Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting  

•  Manet and the Sea

Auguste Rodin (sculptor)

• Rodin: Sculpture & Drawings

•  Rodin : The Shape of Genius by Butler

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