Realism
1840s–1860s
An unfiltered look at real life — honest, grounded, and shaped by industrial and social change.
“The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality.”
— Gustave Courbet
Gallery
Featured Artist
Gustave Courbet
Courbet was a pioneering French Realist who rejected idealized subjects and instead painted the raw, often harsh, realities of everyday life.