A Burial at Ornans

Painting · 1849–1850 · Ornans · Europe

A village funeral on a 6-metre canvas, the scandal of the 1850–51 Salon and birth of Realism

Author: Gustave Courbet
Style: Realism — Paint what you see: peasants, labourers and the provinces at the scale of history painting
Century: 19th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1865–1869 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy · Realism · Yasnaya Polyana
c. 1831 The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Katsushika Hokusai · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
1830 Liberty Leading the People — Eugène Delacroix · Romanticism · Paris
1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
1824 Symphony No. 9 — Ludwig van Beethoven · Romanticism · Vienna
1856–1859 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo — Utagawa Hiroshige · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
1856 Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert · Realism · Croisset, near Rouen
1857 The Gleaners — Jean-François Millet · Realism · Barbizon