Animals in Realism: A Difficult Life

Realism in Europe

Rosa Bonheur

1822-1839

Plowing in Vernais, 1850

Going to Market, 1851

Returning from the Mill, 1860

Changing Pasture, 1863

Giovanni Fattori

1825-1908

Red Cart, 1870

Farmers and Oxen Taking a Break, 1875

White Horse at a Door, 1885

Horse in the Sun, 1885

Horse and Wagon, 1890

March Landscape, 1894

Farmer with Collapsed Horse, 1903

Anton Mauve

1838-1888

HorseAnton Mauve, 1860s-70s

Watering Horses, 1871

Milking Time, c. 1875

Towing a Fishing Boat into the Sea, 1870s-80s

Fishing Boat on the Beach, 1882

Gathering Seaweed

Grazing Sheep

Cow

Other Western Realist Works

The Plaster KilnThéodore Géricault, 1823

DonkeyAlexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1833

Landscape with Dead HorseGustave Courbet, 1857

Sheep in a BarnHeinrich von Zügel, 1885

Cart with Red and White OxVincent Van Gogh, 1884

Landscape with Horses and WagonsCarl Heinrich Hoffmann, 1887

Loading the Lumber CartCarl Heinrich Hoffmann, 19th c.

Donkey CartAnton Schrödel, 19th c.

Old Mine HorseConstantin Meunier, 1890

The Butcher’s ShopJan Stobbaerts, 1890s

The End of the DayFrederic Remington, c. 1904

Russia: The Wanderers

The Wanderers, 1888

Mikhail Clodt

1832-1902

Riverside Farmstead, 1858

Peasant, 1871

In the Field, 1872

Watering Cows, 1879

Aleksei Stepanov

1858-1923

The Cranes Are Flying, 1891

Morning Greeting, 1897

In the Pasture

In a Village in Winter, 1900-1910

Valentin Serov

1865-1911

Oxen, 1885

October in Domotkanovo, 1895

Peasant Woman in a Cart, 1896

Winter, 1898

Leonard Turzhansky

1875-1945

Winter

Winter Landscape

Moscow Cab Driver, 1911

Other Members of the Wanderers Group

The Last JourneyVasily Perov, 1865

Empty SleighsIlarion Prianishkov, 1872

The ReturnAbram Arkhipov, 1896