50 Great Paintings of Men at Work You Need To See Right Now
Last month I made an art post about of windows and balconies, this time I bring you 50 beautiful paintings that show you what men can do. Hello, there, I hope you’re doing great. You won’t find another collection like this online.
“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.” – Joseph Conrad
In her excellent 1971 book The Manipulated Man, German doctor Esther Vilar defined man as a human being who works. From the moment he grows and until his death, work, it seems so, it’s the definitive activity for a man during his time in this world.
Here are 50 beautiful works of art that prove the above mentioned.
I tried to combine paintings of men doing physical work with paintings of men doing more mental-related work.
From lumberjacks to doctors, from composers to sculptors, public notaries, office workers, soldiers and even gladiators, all of these paintings prove that men have what it takes to keep society working and this world turning.
I also tried to combine paintings of groups of men with others of men working on their own.
So, without further ado, let’s begin:
50
Ferdinand Hodler – Woodcutter (1910)
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49
Aleksander Gierymski – Sandblasters (1887)
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48
Marinus van Reymerswaele – The Tax Collector (1542)
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47
Tom Browning – Dusty pursuit (2020)
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46
Pál Vágó – Self-portrait in the Studio (1880s)
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45
Nunzio La Spina – Jackhammer (1932)
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44
Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – The Baker (circa 1681)
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43
Joseph Leopold Ratinckx – The Alchemist (1937)
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42
José Malhoa – The Atelier of the Sculptor Simões de Almeida (1883)
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41
Gustave Courbet – The Stonebreakers (1849)
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40
Johannes Vermeer – The Geographer (1668)
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39
Charles Frederick Ulrich – The Glass Blowers (1883)
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38
Ferdinand Hodler – The Shoemaker (1878)
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37
Friedrich Reichert – Gutenberg's First Print (1871)
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36
Cornelis de Man – Portrait of a scribe
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35
Léon Bonnat – An oriental barbershop (1872)
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34
Hans Holbein the Younger – The Merchant Georg Gisze (1532)
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33
Peder Severin Krøyer – Fishermen hauling nets, North Beach, Skagen. Late afternoon (1883)
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32
Charles E. Weir – The Wood Sawyer (1842)
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31
Adam Hannytkiewicz – Koszykarze (1932)
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30
Winslow Homer – The Reaper (1878)
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29
Wybrand Hendriks – The Four Chief Commissioners of the Amsterdam Harbor Works (Between circa 1791 and circa 1795)
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28
Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp – Wine Grower (1628)
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27
Joseph Wright of Derby – An Iron Forge (1772)
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26
Annibale Carracci – The Butcher's Shop (early 1580s)
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25
McClelland Barclay – Sailor Loading Fixed Ammunition (1942)
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24
Eugène Lepoittevin – Sailors lighting fires at the entrance to a port (1862)
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23
Fanny Carlini – A gondolier delivering fruit and vegetables (turn of the 19/20th century)
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22
Arturo Michelena – El desván del anticuario (1893)
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21
Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Carpet Merchant (circa 1887)
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20
Diego Rivera – Detroit Industry, North Wall (1932–33)
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19
Jehan Georges Vibert - The Marvelous Sauce (circa 1890)
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18
Jean-Leon Gerome – Pollice Verso (1872)
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17
N.C. Wyet – Dark Harbor Fisherman (1943)
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16
Marinus van Reymerswaele – The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
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15
Joaquín Sorolla – Portrait of Dr Simarro at the Microscope (1897)
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14
Edgar Degas – A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873)
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13
Jean-Baptiste Greuze – The Guitar Player (1757)
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12
Rudolf Ernst – Le Marchand De Fleurs
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11
Thomas Pollock Anshutz – The Ironworkers’ Noontime (1880)
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10
Rembrandt – The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp (1632)
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9
Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse – Flour carriers. Scene from Paris (1885)
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8
Frans Snyders – Cook at a Kitchen Table with Dead Game (between 1634 and 1637)
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7
Gustave Caillebotte – Gardeners (from 1875 until 1877)
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6
Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – A Notary in His Office (1672)
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5
Petrus Christus – A Goldsmith in His Shop (1449)
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4
Ilya Repin – Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka during the composition of the opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila” (1887)
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3
Gustave Caillebotte – The Floor Scrapers (1875)
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2
Edward Hopper – Office at Night (1940)
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Edgar Melville Ward – The Gunsmith Shop
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Bonus Painting:
George Bellows – Dempsey and Firpo (1924)
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So, there you have them. What do you think? Which one of these magnificent paintings is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.
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