Industrial painting took off in the 19th century with the advent of new production techniques and the automation of work in the West at the same time. Industrial painting generally represents landscapes where nature has definitely given way to human production activities: workers busy in the factory, thick black smoke escaping from chimneys, large hangars or raw material warehouses, wasteland. industrial buildings, docks where containers and metal structures intermingle… Among the most famous paintings representing industry, we can cite in particular the coal unloaders by Monet or "The Steelworks" by Maximilien Luce.