The Railway
Édouard Manet · 1873
The story
The Railway (French: Le Chemin de fer), widely known as Gare Saint-Lazare, is an 1873 painting by Édouard Manet. It is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, the fellow painter Victorine Meurent, who was also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, among other paintings by Manet. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1874 and donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1956.
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Date
- 1873
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 93.3 × 111.5 cm
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