Everyone goes gaga for the Impressionists, but if folks knew just a little bit more about Gustave Courbet - including his role in tearing down the VendΓ΄me Column, a major monument to Napoleon - they'd recognize he's the true GOAT of 19th-century French art tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/when...
Would be really interesting to double feature The Rickshaw Man with a Douglas Sirk not sure which Sirk tho