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Édouard Manet

Repose (Le Repos), ca. 1871

Description

Maker

  • Édouard Manet, 1832-1883, French

Title

Repose (Le Repos)

Year

ca. 1871

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

150.2 x 114 cm (59 1/8 x 44 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, LR corner of framed print:Manet

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry

Object Number

59.027

Projects & Publications

Publications

Impressionism, Fashion, & Modernity

Manet Portraying Life

Manet

The Man who Invented Modernity

Selected Works

Berthe Morisot

1841-1895

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Inventing Impressionism

October 21, 2016 - June 11, 2017

Although he did not exhibit with the Impressionists, Manet was a key participant in the development of a new pictorial language. Repose demonstrates elements of his radical style, including dominant contrasts of light and dark tones; broad, tactile paint-handling; and a sense of shallow, compressed space.

This representation of the artist Berthe Morisot shocked some viewers. They criticized her casual pose, her informal dress, and her availability as a model. Her gaze suggests reverie, in contrast to the raucous subject of a pearl diver pursued by a dragon in the Japanese woodblock print above her head. Manet described this painting as a study in physical and psychological repose—“not at all in the character of a portrait.”

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

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