Realism







Works in this room
Ordinary people and working lives, painted as they were, from the 1840s on.
First room, north wall

The Dancing LessonThomas Eakins, 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
John Quincy Adams WardHenry Augustus Loop, 1863Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Talking It OverEnoch Wood Perry, 1872Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First room, south wall

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)John Singer Sargent, 1883–84Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Garden View, BrooklynFidelia Bridges, ca. 1867Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
A Village SquareWalter Shirlaw, 1875–80Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Second room, south wall

Variations in Violet and Grey—Market Place, DieppeJames McNeill Whistler, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Factory--Study for "Ironworkers, Noontime"/Verso: Still Life with OrangeThomas Anshutz, (1880)Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 
Wild Roses and IrisesJohn La Farge, 1887Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Spanish LadyLouis M. Eilshemius, 1889Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Second room, north wall

Still Life—Violin and MusicWilliam Michael Harnett, 1888Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Washington Crossing the DelawareEmanuel Leutze, 1851Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Third room, north wall

The PleiadesElihu Vedder, 1885Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, CaliforniaJules Tavernier, 1878Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Roses in a VaseUnrecorded French maker, 1880/1900Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington