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To our left, a young woman sits facing us on a low stone wall at the base of the vertical, black bars of an iron fence and a young girl stands facing away from us to our right in this horizontal painting. Both have pale skin. The woman looks directly at us with dark eyes as she holds an open book, a closed red fan, and a sleeping brown and white puppy in her lap. Her long auburn hair falls down over her shoulders. Her navy-blue dress is accented with white piping on the skirt, collar, and sleeves, and has three large, white buttons down the front and her black hat is adorned with two red…

The Railway

Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

1873 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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