Constantin Meunier

1831–1905 · Realism

Constantin Meunier was an influential Belgian painter and sculptor who is best known for his realist depictions of agricultural labourers, metalworkers, dockers, and coal miners, especially from the 1880s and 1890s.

40 paintings

• Black Country – Borinage
• Cistercians working on land (1801)
• Arab sentry (1878)
• Descent of the miners into the shaft (1882)
• Haystacks at dusk (1878)
• Funeral of a Trappist monk
• Path descending from the slag heap (1877)
• Jeanne Meunier (1895)
• Potato Diggers (1885)
• The Peasant War – Assembling (1875)
• Child Crowned with Laurels
• Cabaret scene in Sevilla / Café del Burrero
• Fisherman's Daughter at Nieuwpoort
• Funeral in a Coal Mine - Blessing of the Coffins (1879)
• Miner at the Exit of the Shaft
• The disaster in the Agrappe coal mine (1885)
• Tobacco Factory, Seville (1883)
• Women Working in a Glass Factory (1878)
• Removal of a Broken Crucible (1884)
• In a Salt Refinery at Rupelmonde
• Man at the Press
• Valaja - A II 764 - Finnish National Gallery (1902)
• Saint Stephen (1867)
• Organ Grinder (1873)
• Steel Foundry (1850)
• Unloading a Sailing Ship (1878)
• Holy-Water Font (1854)
• The Pithead (1850)
• The Blue Tavern
• Rupelmonde
• An Old Bridge
• Pupil in the Snow
• Cigar Makers in Sevilla (1882)
• Collier with Safety Lamp
• Saint Stephen as a Martyr (1866)
• Calvary (1900)
• Portrait of the Artist Gustave Poirier (1900)
• Episode from the Peasants' Revolt. The Fire of Turnhout (1798-1799) (1878)
• De overstroming van Leuven in 1891 (1896)
• The hiercheuse (1887)