... photographic print.. On left, 'Tower from Urn'. Delaroche once quoted: '...from today painting is dead.' This is because he belived that painting would surpass the skills of the artist and paintings would become inaccurate in comparison to the results photography gives. But this isnot true, photography acted far more as an aid to painting, enhancing painters work by giving realistic resources of nudes and landscapes. By the 1860's artists such as Delacroix, Manet, Corot, Courbet and Degas were all using photography as a resource to their work and in most you can see how this has influenced their style. This continued to the 90's where artists such as David Hockney also used photographs to source their work Corbet took photo of an artists workshop and worked from it to paint a scene. You can tell it has been painted from a photograph due to the stark flesh tones and dark shadows - these have ...

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