Discus and comment on the representation of women in Realist and/or Impressionist painting. Refer to at least two paintings, each by a different artist.
Both Impressionist and Realist artists depict women working or doing chores, for example ‘the Gleaners’ by Millet shows women stooping in the fields to glean the leftovers from the harvest. Pissarro also depicts a woman doing a daily chore in his painting ‘woman hanging up the washing’, the woman in the painting is, as the title suggests, hanging out the washing. Realist and Impressionist painters also show women relaxing, sometimes in their bathrooms. ‘The Bath’ by Berthe Morisot shows a girl arranging her hair in her bathroom.