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Artist: Gustave Caillebotte

Year: 1875

Medium: Oil on canvas

Les raboteurs de parquet (English title: The Floor Scrapers) is an oil painting by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. The canvas measures 102 by 146.5 centimetres (40.2 in × 57.7 in). It was originally given by Caillebotte's family in 1894 to the Musée du Luxembourg, then transferred to the Musée du Louvre in 1929. In 1947, it was moved to the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, and in 1986, it was transferred again to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where it is currently displayed.

(...) Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France's most prestigious art exhibition, the Salon, for the Salon of 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a "vulgar subject matter". He was hurt by this rejection, and instead showed it at the second exhibition of the Impressionists, with whom he had already associated himself, in 1876. He presented it alongside some of his other works, including a second, different version of Raboteurs from 1876, and his earlier work Jeune homme à sa fenêtre (Young Man at His Window). The images of the floor scrapers came to be associated with Degas's paintings of washerwomen, also presented at the same exhibition and similarly scorned as "vulgar".

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[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

Actual living with nature or romantic?

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

Romantic but some of it was in realistic sense and also roman revival.
Better search terms for it would be Volk, Volkskunst & Bauernkunst.
Here are some I was thinking about: Id. Marko Karoly, Szinyei Merse Pal, and mostly Munkácsy Mihály.

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