GENRE PAINTING

GENRE PAINTING: painting presenting scenes of a normal life; it reports customs, works, games - very often in folk environment.


Full view (41,0Kb) QUENTIN METSYS
The banker and his wife
1514
Full view (29,1Kb) PIETER BRUEGEL THE OLDER
Country wedding
around 1566


Full view (34,5Kb) JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET
Gleaners
1857
Full view (35,7Kb) EDGAR DEGAS
Class of dance
1874


Full view (36,5Kb) BALTHUS
The street
1933
Full view (36,2Kb) DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ
Mansion maids
1956



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