title: Édouard Manet Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1863

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm 208 264

current location: Institution:Musée d'Orsay

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title: Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies Bergère

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1881-1882

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: size cm 96 130

current location: London Museum:Courtauld Institute of Art

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title: Music in the Tuileries.

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1862

medium: technique oil canvas

dimensions: Size cm 76.2 118.1

current location: Institution:National Gallery, London

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credit: National Gallery, London

description: This painting of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris was manet's first major work depicting modern city life. The band is playing and a fashionable crowd has gathered to listen. The picture includes portraits of manet's friends and family. These include manet himself as well as: Baudelaire - poet (1821 - 1867); Théophile Gautier - poet and novelist (1811 - 1872); Ignace Fantin-Latour - flower-painter (1836 - 1904); Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) - composer; Eugène - the artist's brother (1833 - 1892).

title: The Railway.

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1873

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: Size cm 93.3 111.5 (framed: Size cm 113 132.7 5.4 )

current location: Institution:National Gallery of Art

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title: Edouard Manet Luncheon on the Grass - Google Art Project

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1863

current location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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title: Edouard Manet The Balcony - Google Art Project

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1868-1869

dimensions: w1240 x h1700 mm

current location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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title: In the Conservatory

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1879

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title: Edouard Manet At the Café - Google Art Project

artist: Édouard manet

date: circa 1879

medium: technique oil canvas

dimensions: w58 x h47 x d9 cm

current location: The Walters Art Museum

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title: The Rue Mosnier with Flags

artist: Édouard manet

date: 1878

medium: Oil on canvas

dimensions: Unframed: 65.4 x 80 cm (25 3/4 x 31 1/2 in.) Framed [outer dim] (Display): 96.5 x 112.4 x 11.4 cm (38 x 44 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

current location: Institution:Getty Museum

source: Getty Museum online|825

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description: To commemorate the recent Exposition Universelle, itself a celebration of luxury and prosperity, the French government declared June 30, 1878, a national holiday. The holiday, called the Fête de la Paix (Celebration of Peace), also marked France's recovery from the disastrous Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the bloody, divisive Paris Commune that followed. From his second-floor window, Édouard manet captured the holiday afternoon with his most precise, staccato brushwork in a patriotic harmony of the reds, whites, and blues of the French flag that waves from the new buildings' windows.
The urban street was a principal subject of Impressionist and Modernist painting; many artists aimed to show not only the transformation and growth of the Industrial Age but how it also affected society. manet's eyes saw both elegant passengers in hansom cabs and, in the foreground, a worker carrying a ladder. The hunched amputee on crutches, perhaps a war veteran or beggar, passes by fenced-in debris left from the construction of a new train track. manet's sensitivity to the associated costs and sacrifices tempered his optimistic view of national pride and newfound prosperity.