Repose (Le Repos); Manet (ca. 1871)

The display reads:

 

Edouard Manet

French, 1832 - 1883

 

Repose (Le Repos)

Oil on canvas

 

Bequest of Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry 59.027

 

The lady in the picture is Berthe Morisot, the first woman to join the impressionists.

 

 

For more information:

 

www.nytimes.com/1988/07/08/arts/reviews-art-juxtaposition...

 

For more information on Madame Morisot:

 

www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/morisot_berthe.html

 

Taken November 16th, 2010.

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