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Genre paintings depict everyday life or extraordinary life by showing people doing common and uncommon things, ie laundry, resting, sitting, struggling, working ... a good example of a genre painting from the past is Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers, shown below. 

 

Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, 1849, Oil on canvas, 165 x 257 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (destroyed))