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Also Known As realistic art • realistic style

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Painting by Gustave Courbet showing the artist at his easel in a crowded studio, surrounded by figures including a nude model, onlookers, and a child with a white dog.
Honoré Daumier: At the Palais de Justice
Summer Night
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Topics
realismPhoto-realismMimesisThe artsCatholic imaginationRomanticismRenaissance artBaroque art and architectureobjectivismArt for art’s sakeSouth Asian artsIslamic artsSoutheast Asian artsInterior design
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Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
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Luigi Capuana
Italian writer
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Friedrich Theodor von Vischer
German literary critic
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Champfleury
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