The Representations Of Poverty

The Representations of Poverty

In 17th century Spain and 19th century France

Spain in the 1600’s France in the 1800’s

•3 plague epidemics•Thirty Years War (1618-1648)•Spain and Hapsburg ruling family were weakened•Silting up of the Guadalquivir River. Seville would suffer greatly from this•Civil Wars in Catalonia (area in North East Spain) in 1640’s

•Several wars during and after Napoleon’s rule•Decrease in food supply in 1846•Cholera epidemic•Government unrest•Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto. Written in Paris in 1848•Industrialism

Diego Velázquez’s Bodegónes

Two Men At A Table 1620-1621

Christ In The House of Mary And Martha 1618

Three Men At A Table 1617

Velázquez’s Poetic Peasantry

Los Borrachos (The Feast Of Bacchus) 1629

The Forge Of Vulcan 1630

Both of these images were on display at the Galerie Espagnole at the Louvre in Paris from 1838 to 1848.

Galerie EspagnoleLouvre 1838-1848

Esteban Murillo The Beggar Boy 1650

Juseppe de Rivera The Beggar (The Clubfoot) 1642

Gustave Courbet

The Stone Breakers 1849 The Peasants of Flagey Returning From The Fair 1850-1855

Manet’s Spanish Influence

The Old Musician 1861-1862

The Spanish Singer 1860 The Absinthe Drinker 1858-1859

Honoré Daumiersocial critic

The Third Class Carriage 1862

Velázquez Exhibit at the MET 2003

Influence of the Realists

Vincent Van Gogh The Potato Eaters 1885