Urban Revolutionaries: 9 Poverty

Urban Revolutionaries: 9 Poverty

The reality of urban life was that precious few who migrated from the country ever made their fortune in the city. For the great majority life was a constant battle to avoid poverty that, in the long run, turned out to be their only reward. Just as there were social realists who painted rural poverty in the middle of the nineteenth century, so there were a few who depicted urban poverty in its closing decades. Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850-1924)…