1845

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Genre painting

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham

1845 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

A trapper and his son drift downriver at first light with a chained animal at the prow, the water so still it doubles them.

★ 7.2

Portrait · Romanticism

The Desperate Man (Self-portrait)

Gustave Courbet

1845 · Private collection

Courbet at twenty-six, lunging at the viewer with both hands in his hair and his eyes wide. Half self-portrait, half performance.

★ 6.5