“Without expanding on the greater or lesser accuracy of a name which nobody, I should hope, can really be expected to understand, I will limit myself to a few words of elucidation in order to cut short the misunderstandings.”

1840s - 1850s, Realist Manifesto', 1851/1855

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French painter 1819–1877

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