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Édouard Manet

Children in the Tuileries Gardens, ca. 1861-1862

Description

Maker

  • Édouard Manet, 1832-1883, French

Title

Children in the Tuileries Gardens

Year

ca. 1861-1862

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

37.8 x 46 cm (14 7/8 x 18 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Unsigned

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

42.190

About

In 1862 Édouard Manet completed a painting of elegant Parisians gathered in the Tuileries Gardens for an afternoon of music and socializing. He had developed an idea for that composition in this small, theatrically staged picture of children. A trio of young girls in white dresses are seen from the back while an older girl in black appears to direct them. Even in these doll-like figures, Manet captures details of contemporary costume. A man in a straw hat sits at ease at far left. At right, a female attendant wearing a red turban holds a hoop for her well-dressed charge. Although Manet’s brushstroke is characteristically wide and loose, he uses it to generate both active and static passages. Rhythmically alternating the dark tree trunks against the garden’s sandy paths, he creates a sense of movement and light around the barely animated children.

Unsigned

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 13

Storage
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The Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange

From the Collection of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; From the Collection of The Museum of Art, Rhode

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Inventing Impressionism

October 21, 2016 - June 11, 2017

Manet perceived Paris as an urban theater, and often turned chance encounters into subjects for his paintings. In this oil sketch set in a formal garden, he captures a trio of little girls in momentary stillness. Tilting their heads toward an older girl who gestures in their direction, they share the public space with an old man in a straw hat and a nursemaid of African or Caribbean origin who attends her pampered charge. Manet records the mingling of different economic classes and defines their distinctive costumes with loose brushstrokes, rhythmically punctuating the activity with a screen of chestnut trees whose dark trunks lead the viewer further along the garden’s sandy paths.

From the Reserve I

April 9 - August 3, 1994

Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University

February 16 - April 2, 1967

Historias

January 15 - February 13, 1945

French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries

November 1, 1942

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Children in the Tuileries Gardens with the accession number of 42.190. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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