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Equally admired and hated during his lifetime, Courbet paved the way for 20th century painting.

Part of the realist wave that swept through art in the 19th century, the work of Jean-François Millet had a profound influence on the art of the Impressionists and Van Gogh.

Charles Jacque is a great French naturalist painter. He is one of the founders of the Barbizon school in which he is recognized as the specialist in sheep and farmyard subjects.

A painter of French nationality, born in 1807 in Bordeaux, and died in 1876 in Menton, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena belonged to the Barbizon school of art.

The first sculptor of the French animal school, Barye is considered an important link between 19th-century Romanticism and Realism. Barye first trained as a goldsmith with his father, then studied painting and sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts.