It can be argued that the impressionist era continued until the death of Claude Monet in 1926. Monet was the last impressionist to pass. But after 1886 the group went their separate ways geographically, socially and artistically. We therefore consider that the impressionist era lasted from 1860 until 1886.
Just so, what time period was Realism?
Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. The movement arose in opposition to Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century.