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List of illustrations

  • The Wave (La Vague)
  • The Stream (Le Ruisseau du Puits-Noirs; vallée de la Loue)
  • After Dinner at Ornans
  • The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
  • Haymaking (Les Foins)
  • Peasants Resting (Étude de figure en plein air, effet de soleil)
  • Woman Seated in the Grass near a Sleeping Man (Femme assise dans l’herbe près d’un homme endormi)
  • Sketch for Haymaking (Étude pour Les Foins)
  • Summer Landscape (Paysage pour Les Foins)
  • Le Salon de 1878: Bastien-Lepage
  • Les Foins
  • Siesta at Haymaking Time (La Sieste pendant la saison des foins, Doubs)
  • Return from the Fields (Retour des champs)
  • Reapers at Damvillers, Meuse (Faucheurs, Damvillers, Meuse)
  • The Harvest (La Moisson)
  • Harvest Scene
  • The Siesta (La Sieste)
  • Sheaf-Binders (Lieurs des gerbes)
  • The Harvesters (Les Moissonneurs)
  • The Family of Jean-le-Boîteux, Peasants from Plougasnou (La Famille de Jean-le-Boîteux, paysans de Plougasnou, Finistère)
  • Mid-Day (Méridienne), also known as La Sieste
  • Vineyard Laborer Resting (Le Vigneron au repos)
  • The Angelus
  • The Stonebreakers (Les Casseurs de pierres)
  • Young Ladies of the Village (Les Demoiselles de village)
  • Young Women on the Banks of the Seine
  • The Man who would one day be called to demolish the Column must have started as a stonebreaker (L’Homme qui était un jour appelé à démolir la Colonnne devait commencer par être casseur de pierres)
  • Faucheuse 1876. Th. Pilter, 24 rue Alibert, Paris
  • Paying the Harvesters (La Paye des moissoneurs)
  • October (Saison d’octobre, récolte des pommes de terre)
  • Fishing (Pêche à la ligne)
  • Bathers (Baigneurs)
  • Périssoires
  • Chez MM. Les Peintres impressionnistes
  • The Floor-Scrapers (Raboteurs de parquets)
  • Gustave Caillebotte with boating friends
  • Swimming (Baignades)
  • Turkeys
  • Gare Saint-Lazare
  • Gare Saint-Lazare: Exterior (The Signal) (La Gare Saint-Lazare, à l’extérieur [Le Signal])
  • Gare Saint-Lazare: Exterior View (La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure)
  • The “Casin” of the former Caillebotte property, Yerres
  • Yerres, Le Lavoir et les Bains
  • À la Grenouillère
  • Les Environs de Paris: La Grenouillère
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party
  • Portraits at the Stock Exchange
  • A Circle of Stockbrokers at the Paris Stock Exchange (La Corbeille des agents de change à la Bourse de Paris)
  • Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)
  • Paris, A Rainy Day
  • The Pont de l'Europe
  • Sunday at the Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris
  • Cassette de Saint Louis (1226–1270)
  • Place de la Concorde, Paris
  • Panoramic view of the town of Agen in Aquitaine, and the twelfth- century cathedral of Saint Caprais
  • De Nittis. Paris, vu du Pont Royal (Photographie instantanée)
  • The Yerres, Effect of Rain (L’Yerres, effet de pluie)
  • The Strike of the Miners (La Grève des mineurs)
  • The 14th July, 1880 (Le 14 julliet 1880)
  • The Strikes at Reims (Les Grèves de Reims)
  • The Flagellation of Christ (Flagellation de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ)
  • Chez le Père Lathuille
  • Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc)
  • An Accident
  • Execution of a Trumpeter during the Commune (L’Exécution d’un trompette sous la Commune)
  • The Burial of Ornans, by Courbet, Master Painter
  • The Bal Élysée-Ménilmontant (Le Bal public)
  • Le Salon pour rire: A.-P. Roll
  • The Strike at Anzin (La Grève d’Anzin)
  • Salon de 1880: Grève des mineurs
  • The Strike at Anzin: The Saint-Louis Pit (La Grève d’Anzin: La Fosse Saint-Louis)
  • The Wife of the Striker (La Femme du grèviste)
  • Sketch for The Strike of the Miners (Esquisse pour La Grève des mineurs)
  • Ruffians: Strike Scene, Anzin (Les Roufions: Scène de grève, Anzin)
  • The Intervention of the Sabine Women
  • The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclops)
  • The Strike of the Miners (La Grève des mineurs), detail
  • The Strike of the Miners at Pas-de-Calais (La Cortège des mineursdu Pas-de-Calais en grève parcourant)
  • Parliamentary Trains (Les Trains parlementaires)
  • The Strike of the Miners (La Grève des mineurs)
  • The Absinthe Drinkers (Les Déclassés)
  • Cantonnier, Paris 4 k. 1 and Le Cantonnier
  • Wastelands (Terrains vagues)
  • Garlic Seller (Le Marchand d’ail et d’échalottes)
  • An Impressionist Working on a Painting, Saint-Ouen (Un Impressionniste devant le tableau à faire, Saint-Ouen)
  • Memories and Regrets (Souvenirs et regrets)
  • The Realist Painter (Le Peintre réaliste)
  • The Ramparts of Northern Paris (Vue des remparts du Nord-Paris)
  • Le Décadent
  • The Departure Breakfast at Asnières (Le Déjeuner du départ à Asnières)
  • The Blacksmiths (Les Forgerons)
  • Sunday at the Cabaret (Le Dimanche au cabaret)
  • Bathers at Asnières
  • Gas Tanks at Clichy (Passage du Puits-Bertin, Clichy)
  • Le Déclassé
  • Stone Breaker, Le Raincy (Casseur de pierres, Le Raincy)
  • Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh in Asnières
  • Absinthe
  • Absinthe: Dialogue naturaliste
  • The Drinkers (Les Buveurs)
  • Liard, the Ragpicker (Liard, le chiffonier)
  • The Return of the Ragpickers (La Rentrée des chiffonniers)
  • Ragpicker Lighting His Pipe (Chiffonnier allumant sa pipe)
  • Man Having Just Painted His Fence (Bonhomme venant de peindre sa barrière)
  • Russian Music (Chez Miss)
  • Listening to Schumann (En écoutant Schumann)
  • The Sister of Ensor at the Piano (La Soeur d’Ensor au piano)
  • Willy Finch Writing at a Table, Three Studies, a Dog, and a Silhouette (Willy Finch à table, trois études, un chien, et une silhouette)
  • A Bourgeois Salon (Un Salon bourgeois)
  • Afternoon in Ostend (Une après- dînée à Ostende)
  • The Lady in Distress (La Dame en détresse)
  • Portrait of the Artist’s Father (Portrait du père de l’artiste)
  • The Lamp-Lighter (Le Lampiste)
  • The Drunkards (Les Pochards)
  • Man Having Just Painted His Fence
  • Flowers, Still Life (Fleurs, nature morte)
  • Singing a Pathetic Song
  • M. et Mme Edouard Manet
  • Madame Manet at the Piano
  • The Colorist (Seule)
  • The Drawing Lesson (La Leçon de dessin)
  • Scandalized Masks (Les Masques)
  • Interior, Woman at the Window
  • A Passionate Song (Un Chant passionné)
  • A Passionate Song
  • A Melody by Schubert (Une mélodie de Schubert)
  • The Lullaby of Chopin (La Berceuse de Chopin)
  • Cup of Tea
  • Lively and Radiant: The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (La Vive et rayonnante: L’Entrée du Christ à Jerusalem)
  • Belgium: After the fires at Jumet, rioters advance on Roux (En Belgique: Les Émeutiers, après les incendies de Jumet, marchent sur Roux)
  • Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, 1856-57, and other paintings at the Courbet retrospective
  • The Stonebreakers, 1849, and other paintings at the Courbet retrospective
  • Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1853, and other paintings at the Courbet retrospective
  • The Wave, 1870, and other paintings at the Courbet retrospective
  • Study of a Wave (Étude de vague)
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~The origins of this book can be traced to a question posed one day long ago at the University of California, Berkeley. “Why,” one of my professors asked, “doesn’t anyone write about Realism anymore?” My name quickly appeared to fill the gap, and a thesis gradually followed. From start to finish, Tim Clark unstintingly supported my...
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Jules Bastien-Lepage first showed Haymaking (Les Foins) at the Paris Salon of 1878 (fig. 5).See William Steven Feldman, “The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884),” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1973), 89–106; Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848–1884: Catalogue raisonné de...
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Gustave Caillebotte first presented his Decorative Triptych at the fourth exhibition of “independent artists” in the spring of 1879 (figs....
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Alfred-Philippe Roll first showed The Strike of the Miners at the Paris Salon of 1880 (fig. 58). Having won a first-class medal three years before, he was allowed to hang his large canvas outside the competition in the main entrance hall, where it garnered widespread attention from critics and the public alike.See Gabriel P. Weisberg, Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), 97–99; Olivier Le Bihan et al., Alfred Roll, 1846–1919: Le Naturalisme en question, exh. cat. (Paris: Somogy, 2007); and Camille Baillargeon, “1880: Des mineurs en grève au Salon ou de l’influence de la peinture sur les acquis sociaux,” Analyse de l’IHOES [Institut d’Histoire Ouvrière, Économique et Sociale] 29 (31 November 2007), accessed 20 August 2014,...
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At the Paris Salon of 1882, James Ensor exhibited the canvas now known as Russian Music for the first time outside his native Belgium (fig. 105).See Xavier Tricot, James Ensor, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. 1 (Antwerp: Pandora Ortelius, 1992), 180. Originally titled Chez Miss, his depiction of a light-filled drawing room, a woman playing a piano, and a seated, listening man had drawn little attention the year before when it hung near Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Les Foins at the Triennial Salon in...
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On the first day of May 1882, an official exhibition of the work of Gustave Courbet opened...
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