Thomas Couture (1815-1879) – Romans of the Decadence Salon 1847

Thomas Couture (1815-1879) – Romans of the Decadence Salon 1847

Image of the “fallen woman”

Jean François Millet – The Gleaners 1857

Courbet

The Lovers

1844

Courbet - The Burial in Ornans 1849-1850

Courbet - The Burial in Ornans 1849-1850

Courbet – The Bathers 1853 Boucher – Diana at her bath 1742

Courbet – The Bathers 1853 Ingres – the Valpinçon Bather 1808

Courbet

“Bonjour Monsieur Courbet”

1854

Meeting with collector from

Montpellier Alfred Bruyas

Courbet - The Studio (allegory of 7 years of my artistic life) Paris World Fair 1855

Courbet - The Studio: Self portrait, Virginie Binet (model), Desiré Binet (child drawing), M et Mme Sabatier

(collectors), Baudelaire (as art critic) Champfleury (Realist writer) Bruyas (collector) Proudhon (Socialist writer) childhood friends (writers, poets) embracing couple (free love)

Courbet - The Studio - Exploiters and the exploited:

Rabi, Priest, 1793 Republican, Hunter, Rag seller, Chinaman, Undertaker, Peasants, Poor Irish woman and Poacher resembling Napoleon III in foreground with dogs

Edouard Manet

(1832 – 1883)

The Absinthe Drinker

1858-59

Manet - Music in the Tuileries 1862

Charles Baudelaire

Poet, art critic and author of

“The Painter of Modern Life” 1862

Manet - Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) 1863

Manet – Luncheon on the Grass 1863 Raimondi – river Gods in Judgement of Paris

Manet – Luncheon on the Grass 1863 Courbet – Center of « Studio » 1855

Manet - Olympia 1863

Manet – Olympia 1863 Titian – Venus of Urbino 1538

Courbet

The Origin of the World

1866

Painted for

Khalil Bey

Henri Fantin Latour - Hommage to Delacroix 1864

Duranty, Fantin-Latour, Whistler, Chamfleury, Manet, Braquemond, Balleroy, Baudelaire