# Romanticism and Realism

East wing: The Nineteenth Century · hang 749 · 73 works

Storms, ruins and feeling from about 1780, then ordinary people and working lives painted as they were, from the 1840s on.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## Section 1, north wall

1. [Luman Reed](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/luman-reed-met-10794), Asher Brown Durand, 1835. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/luman-reed-met-10794?hang=749)
2. [Captain John Gell](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/captain-john-gell-met-16781), Gilbert Stuart, 1785. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/captain-john-gell-met-16781?hang=749)
3. [The Fountain at Grottaferrata](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-fountain-at-grottaferrata-aic-209942), Adrian Ludwig (Ludwig) Richter, 1832. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/the-fountain-at-grottaferrata-aic-209942?hang=749)

## Section 1, south wall

4. [Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music Room](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/harmony-in-green-and-rose-the-music-room-si-fsg-f1917-234a-b), James McNeill Whistler, 1860-1861. Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/harmony-in-green-and-rose-the-music-room-si-fsg-f1917-234a-b?hang=749)
5. [Plums](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/plums-met-11096), John William Hill, 1870. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/plums-met-11096?hang=749)
6. [Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/arrangement-in-flesh-colour-and-black-portrait-of-theodore-d-met-13211), James McNeill Whistler, 1883. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/arrangement-in-flesh-colour-and-black-portrait-of-theodore-d-met-13211?hang=749)
7. [The Pleiades](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-pleiades-met-13070), Elihu Vedder, 1885. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/the-pleiades-met-13070?hang=749)

## Section 2, south wall

8. [Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/attack-on-bunker-s-hill-with-the-burning-of-charles-town-nga-42489), Unrecorded American maker, 1783 or after. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/attack-on-bunker-s-hill-with-the-burning-of-charles-town-nga-42489?hang=749)
9. [Elijah Boardman](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/elijah-boardman-met-10830), Ralph Earl, 1789. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/elijah-boardman-met-10830?hang=749)
10. [Newburyport Meadows](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/newburyport-meadows-met-11053), Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1876–81. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/newburyport-meadows-met-11053?hang=749)

## Section 2, north wall

11. [Fruit on a Tray](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/fruit-on-a-tray-nga-42507), Unrecorded American maker, c. 1840. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/fruit-on-a-tray-nga-42507?hang=749)
12. [Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/dance-in-a-subterranean-roundhouse-at-clear-lake-california-met-698529), Jules Tavernier, 1878. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/dance-in-a-subterranean-roundhouse-at-clear-lake-california-met-698529?hang=749)
13. [Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/seventh-regiment-on-review-washington-square-new-york-met-10194), Otto Boetticher, 1851. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/seventh-regiment-on-review-washington-square-new-york-met-10194?hang=749)

## Section 3, north wall

14. [Woman by the Seaside](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/woman-by-the-seaside-nga-52262), Unrecorded French maker, 19th century. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/woman-by-the-seaside-nga-52262?hang=749)
15. [Washington Crossing the Delaware](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/washington-crossing-the-delaware-met-11417), Emanuel Leutze, 1851. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/washington-crossing-the-delaware-met-11417?hang=749)
16. [Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis"](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/landscape-scene-from-thanatopsis-met-10793), Asher Brown Durand, 1850. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism/landscape-scene-from-thanatopsis-met-10793?hang=749)

## Doors

- [The Hudson River School](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/hudson-river-school?hang=749&via=continue) (27 works)
- [Romanticism and Realism, room 2](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/romanticism-and-realism?hang=749&cursor=eyJvIjoxNiwiaCI6NzQ5LCJpIjpudWxsLCJnIjoieTNWY0tyLVcifQ)