Art & Labor in the Nineteenth

Century

Rural Labor

Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, 1849.

Jean-François Millet, The Sower, 1850.

Adolph Menzel, Iron Rolling Mill, or Modern Cyclops I, 1876.

Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857.

Jean- François Millet, The Angelus, 1859.

Jules Breton, The Return of the Gleaners, 1859.

Jules Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884.

Jules Bastien-Lepage, The Haymakers, 1878.

Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885.

Paul Signac, In Times of Harmony, 1894.

Camille Pissarro, Picking Apples in Eragny, 1888.

Urban Labor

Richard Redgrave, The Poor Teacher, 1845.

Ford Madox Brown, Work, 1852.

Gustave Doré, Over London – By Rail and Orange Court, Drury Lane, from London: A Pilgrimage, 1872.

Honoré Daumier, The Heavy Burden, 1850- 53.

Edgar Degas, Women Ironing, ca. 1884-86.

Edgar Degas, The Millinery Shop, 1879/86.

Gustave Caillebotte, Floor Scrapers, 1875.

Gustave Caillebotte, The House Painters, 1877.

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières, 1884.

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881-82.

Edgar Degas, The Name Day of the Madam, 1876-77.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins, c. 1894.

Artist’s Labor

Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, 1635.

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785.

Gustave Courbet, Self-Portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843-45.

Gustave Courbet, Self-Portrait (The Wounded Man), 1855.

Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Atelier: A Real Allegory of Seven Years of My Artistic Life, 1854-55.

William Morris, Daisy Wallpaper, 1864.

Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875.