Realist Rural Scenes
Farm workers, fields and village life painted with dignity and without sentiment.
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About Realist Rural Scenes
In mid-19th-century France, Realist painters made farm labour a serious subject. Jean-François Millet painted three women picking up stray grain in "The Gleaners" (1857) and a couple pausing to pray at dusk in "The Angelus". Both are at the Musée d'Orsay. Rosa Bonheur painted oxen turning the soil in "Ploughing in the Nivernais" (1849).
Jules Breton painted a young field worker at sunrise in "The Song of the Lark" (1884), now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
