Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Musée d'Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists.
Courtauld Gallery, Musée d'Orsay, Hugh Lane Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
