Gustave Courbet, After Dinner at Ornans, 1849

Ilya Repin, They did not Expect Him,

Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan Ilya Yefimovich Repin 1844 – 29 September 1930 was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order.

The Song of the Lark, 1884 Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.

Polischuk Misha