Meissonier, Memory of Civil War or Barricade in the
Rue de la Mortellaire, June 1848, 1848
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830.
Daumier, The Uprising, c. 1848.
Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849.
Millet, The Sower, 1850.
Millet, The Gleaners, 1857.
Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-55.
Daumier, The Burden, 1855-56.
Daumier, Third Class Railway Carriage, 1864-65.
In his essay, Painter of Modern Life (1863) Baudelaire placed the artist-dandy at the
center of his world because he alone could reveal the “eternal beauty and amazing harmony of life in the capital cities”, a beauty and harmony drawn from the
transitory and external manifestations of urban life.
Guys, Two Women Wearing Blue Feathers and A Lady Walking, 1860s.
Courbet, Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer), 1856.
Manet, Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass),1863.
Titian (formerly attrib to Giorginone), Pastoral Concert, c. 1508.
Raimondi (after Raphael), Judgment of Paris, c. 1520.
Manet, Olympia, 1863.
Manet, Olympia, 1863.Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538.
Daumier, Avant le Peinture, in Charivari, 1865
(“Why the devil is that big red woman in chemise called Olympia?”
“Perhaps it’s the name of the cat.”).
Cham (Charles Amédée de Noé), caricature
of Olympia in Charivari, 1865.
Harunobu, Geisha as Daruma Crossing the Sea,
mid- eighteenth century.
Cassatt, Maternal Caress, 1891.
Impressionism
Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1873.
haussmannization(Baron Haussmann)
flâneur
Rue Estienne, c. 1865.Marville, Rue Glatigny, Paris, 1865.
Marville, Avenue des Gobelins, c. 1870-71.
Pissarro, Boulevard du Montmartre, 1897.
Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873.
Morisot, Summer’s Day, 1879.
Renoir, La Moulin de la Galette, 1876.
Haussmann, Avenue de l’Opera Looking Toward the Louvre, c. 1880.
Marville, The Piercing of the Avenue de L’Opera, c. 1865.
Garnier The Opera House 1873.
Cassatt, Woman in a Loge (At the Opera), 1879.
Renoir, La Loge, 1874.
Cassatt, The Loge, 1880.
Manet, The Bar at the Folies Bergere, 1881.
Post-impressionism
Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86.
Cezanne, Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, 1890s.