1862, Édouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries Gardens -- National Gallery (London)
From the museum label: Manet's first major painting of modern city life depicts a fashionable Parisian crowd. It includes Manet himself on the far left and such friends as the poet Charles Baudelaire and the painter Henri Fantin-Latour, gathered in the Tuileries, apparently for a concert. Several figures engage with our gaze, as if we too are part of the social throng.
Link to other Manet paintings
1862, Édouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries Gardens -- National Gallery (London)
From the museum label: Manet's first major painting of modern city life depicts a fashionable Parisian crowd. It includes Manet himself on the far left and such friends as the poet Charles Baudelaire and the painter Henri Fantin-Latour, gathered in the Tuileries, apparently for a concert. Several figures engage with our gaze, as if we too are part of the social throng.
Link to other Manet paintings