In this country where French literature is simultaneously ... with an ideal tolerance of the freedom of the artist, the fortunes of the realistic school from this point onwards are instructive.

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter, best known for his realist depictions of the human figure set ... His works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage ...

In the 1930s, the French realist filmmakers found a way to speak to and fight against the rising authoritarianism in their country and the world. There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series ...