Movement · 1840–1900

Realism

Ordinary life in earthy, observed color. Dark grounds persist, but paint in tubes (1841) takes painters outdoors.

Across 30 works, the colors are mostly brown (46%), black (23%) and gray (18%). On average the canvases are mid-toned, muted and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: charcoal, pale slate, light grey, pale muted blue and blue black.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 222 charcoal 12.9% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 5.8% of canvas
• MG 219 bistre 5.7% of canvas
• MG 223 soot 4.9% of canvas
• MG 176 taupe 4.4% of canvas
• MG 218 graphite 4.1% of canvas
• MG 221 blue black 3.9% of canvas
• MG 213 light grey 3.4% of canvas
• MG 172 oatmeal 3.0% of canvas
• MG 175 stone 3.0% of canvas
• MG 212 pale grey 2.6% of canvas
• MG 171 bone 2.5% of canvas
• MG 168 dark amber brown 2.4% of canvas
• MG 173 putty 2.4% of canvas
• MG 174 warm grey 2.3% of canvas
• MG 211 dark slate 2.2% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.48

Contrast

0.53

Vividness

0.028

Warmth

+0.78

Complexity

139 cells

Hue range

0.37

Focus

0.08

Artists

• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1796–1875
• Jean-François Millet 1814–1875
• Gustave Courbet 1819–1877
• Rosa Bonheur 1822–1899
• Winslow Homer 1836–1910
• Ilya Repin 1844–1930
• Thomas Eakins 1844–1916
• John Singer Sargent 1856–1925
• Anders Zorn 1860–1920

Works

• The Bridge at Narni, 1826
• Ploughing in the Nivernais, 1849
• A Burial at Ornans, 1849–1850
• The Horse Fair, c. 1853
• Haymaking in the Auvergne, 1855
• The Painter's Studio, 1855
• The road from Sèvres to Paris, c. 1855
• The Gleaners, 1857
• The Angelus, 1858
• Death and the Woodcutter, c. 1859
• The Sleepers, 1866
• Woman with a Parrot, 1866
• Femme Lisant, 1869
• Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870
• The Gross Clinic, 1875
• The Chess Players, 1876
• The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882
• Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581, 1883
• Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), 1884
• Carnation, Lily, Lily and Rose, c. 1885
• Swimming, 1885
• The Fog Warning, 1885
• En premiär, 1888
• They Did Not Expect Him, 1888
• Omnibus, 1891
• Fox Hunt, 1893
• Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, 1890s
• Midsummer Dance, 1897
• The Gulf Stream, 1899
• Gassed, 1919