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…
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The Railway

Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

1873

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 93.3 x 111.5 cm (36 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.) ; framed: 113 x 132.7 x 5.4 cm (44 1/2 x 52 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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