The Railway  1873

by Edouard Manet

The Gare Saint–Lazare, in 1873 the largest and busiest train station in Paris, is unseen in this painting. Advances in industrial technology and train travel, intrinsic to most contemporary depictions of the site, remain in Manet's painting the almost invisible background for a genre depiction of a woman and child. Confined to a narrow space backed by the black bars of an ...
Size: 
93.3 x 111.5 cm (36 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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