Courbet, Gustave - Young Ladies of the Village (1852)
Young Ladies of the Village looks like a peaceful pastoral scene at first glance, but it was actually a tactical strike against the class system. It shows Courbet’s three sisters...
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Courbet, Gustave - The Painter's Studio - 1855
The Painter's Studio is one of the most arrogant and brilliant things ever put on canvas and it serves as Courbet’s personal manifesto. He called it a real allegory and...
Pissarro, Camille - The Boulevard Montmartre at Night - 1897
This is the city as a living organism. Late in his life, Pissarro moved to a hotel overlooking the grand boulevards of Paris. He was suffering from an eye infection...
Pissarro, Camille - The Red Roofs - 1877
The Red Roofs is a lesson in geometry that captures a cluster of houses in the village of Pontoise. Pissarro wasn't interested in a postcard view. He was interested in...
Courbet, Gustave - The Stone Breakers - 1850
The Stone Breakers is a record of a lost world. The original painting was destroyed in a bombing during WWII, so all we have left are photographs and the weight...