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image of The Railway
Edouard Manet (artist)
French, 1832 - 1883
The Railway, 1873
oil on canvas
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.)
Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer
1956.10.1
On View
1874Journal Amusant no. 927 (6 June 1874):
1874L'Illustration 63 (23 May 1874): 341
1876Claretie, Jules. L'Art et les artistes française contemporains. Paris, 1876:259-260
1883"Mistaken Impressions." Punch (
1884Bazire, Edmond. Manet. Paris, 1884:84
1884Gonse, Louis. "Manet." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2e periode (February 1994): 146.
1884Péladan. "Le Procédé de Manet." L'Artiste I (February 1884): 115
1892Castagnary. Salons (1857-1879). 2 vols. Paris, 1892: 118.
1897Proust, Antonin. "Edouard Manet. Souvenirs." La Revue blanche (February- May 1897): 179
1902Duret, Theodore. Histoire d'Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre. Paris, 1902:no. 152, repro.
1908Masters in Art: Edouard Manet. Boston, 1908: 27, 40-41, repro.
1908Duret, Theordore. "Edouard Manet et les impressionnistes" in Histoire du paysage en France. PAris, 1908:308-309.
1910Duret, Theodore. Manet and the French Impressionists. Philadelphia, 1910: 69-70, 76, 233
1912Hourticq, Louis, Jean Laran and Georges Le Bas. French Artists of Our Day: Edouard Manet. Philadelphia, 1912: 65-66, repro.
1913Proust, Antonin. Edouard Manet. Paris, 1913: 73, repro.
1919Duret, Theodore. Historie de Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre. PAris, 1919: 112-115, 136-138, 141-142, 167, 256.
1923Waldmann, Emil. Edouard Manet. Berlin, 1923:78, repro.
1925Blanche, J.E. Manet. New York, 1925:30, 46-52.
1926Moreau-Nelaton, Etienne. Manet reconte par lui-meme. 2 vols. Paris, 1926: II:11-13, 36-37, 114
1927Jamot, Paul. "Manet, 'Le fifre' et Victorine Meurend." La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne LI, no. 282 (January 1927): 36
1930Tabarant, A. "Les Manet de la Collection Havemeyers." (La Renaissance (Feruary 1930: 72.
1932Colin, Paul. Edouard Manet. Paris, 1932: 40-41, 74, repro.
1932Huyghe, Rene. "Manet, peintre." L'Amour de l'art 13, no. 5 (May 1932):184
1932Jamot, Paul and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. 2 vols. Paris, 1932:I:no. 231
1933Rich, Daniel Catton. "The Exhibition of French Art "Art Institute" of Chicago." Formes 33 (1933): 382
1940Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Four Great Impressionists." Art News XXXVIII, no. 25 (23 March 1940): 6-7, 17, repro.
1941Jedlicka, Gotthard. Edouard Manet. Zurich, 1941: 299
1945Malarme, Stephen. "Le jury de peinture pour 1874 et Manet" in L'oeuvres completes. Paris, 1945:695+
1946Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1946:263, repro.
1947Florisoone, Michel. Manet. Monoco, 1947: xiv, xvi, 115, 120, repro.
1947Tabarant, A. Manet et ses oeuvres. PAris, 1947: 221-2, 244-5, 317, 491
1948Bex, Maurice. Manet. New York, 1948: repro
1949Blanche, Jacques Émile. La Pêche aux souvenirs. Paris, 1949:142-143
1954Chan, Georges. "Les peintres impressionnistes et le chemin de fer." La Vie du rail no. 476 (1954):19+, repro.
1954Hamilton, George HEard. Manet and His Critics. New Haven, 1954: 162, 176, 178-182, 187, 195, 208, 211, 265, repro.
1955Bataille, Georges. Manet. Lausanne, 1955: 12.
1955Vaudoyer, J.-L. É. Manet. Paris, 1955, no. 36, repro.
1956Frankfurter, Alfred. "Fifty-five years of U.S. Museums." Art News 56, no. 4 (Summer 1956): 50-51, repro.
1957Comstock, Helen. "A Great Manet for the National Gallery." Coinnoisseur CXXXIX, no. 561 (May 1957): 202-203, repro.
1959Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Midas on Parnassus." Art News Annual XXVIII (1959): 38, repro.
1959Evans, Grose. French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Two in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro.
1961Havemeyer, Louisine W. Sixteen to Sixty: Memoires of a Collector. New York, 1961:220, 236-240.
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 158, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 256, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 81
1966Gimpel, René. Diary of an Art Dealer. New York, 1966: 121
1966Hamilton, George HEard. "Is Manet Still Modern?" Art News Annual XXXI (1966): 120-121, 160, 162, repro.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:426, color repro.
1968Berhaut, Marie. Caillbotte l'Impressioniste. Lausanne, 1968:34-35
1968Liebman, Kurt. Edouard Manet. Dresden, 1968: 67, repro.
1968Schneider, Pierre. The World of Manet, 1832-1883. New York, 1968: 132-133, 136, 140, repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 71, repro.
1969Jaffé, Ludwig G. The World of Impressionism. Maplewood, N.J., 1969: 39, repro.
1970Oriente, Sandra. The Complete Paintings of Manet. London, 1970: no. 180, repro.
1971Nochlin, Linda. Realism. Baltimore, 1971: 162, 264, repro.
1972Bazin, Germain. Edouard Manet. Milan, 1972: 9, 42
1972Hanson, Anne Coffin. "Popular Imagery and the Work of Edouard Manet" in French Nineteenth Century Paintings and Literature, Ulrich Finke, ed. New York, 1972:135-138
1973Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1973: 326-7, 482, repro.
1974Callen, Anthea. "Faure and Manet." Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXXXIII (March 1974): 157-178
1975Lipton, Eunice. "Manet: A Radicalized Fremal Imagery." Artforu XIII, no. 1 (March 1975):20, 52, repro.
1975Mauner, George. Manet: Peintre-Philosophe. University Park and London, 1975: 159
1975Rouart, Denis and Daniel Wildenstein. Edouard Manet: catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. Lausanne, Paris, 1975: I: no. 207, repro.
1975Weisberg, Gabriel P. "Aspects of Japanisme." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62 (April 1975):126-128, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 210, repro.
1976Bellony-Rewald, ALice. The Lost World of the Impressionists. London, 1976:188, 191, 193, repro.
1976Richardson, John. Manet. Oxford, 1976:plate. 27.
1976Dorival, Bernard. "Ukiyo-e and European Painting." in Dialogue in Art: Japan and West. ed. Chisaburph E. Yanada. Tokyo, New York, 1976:36, repro.
1977Hanson, Anne Coffin. Manet and the Modern Tradition. New Haven and London, 1977:77,190, repro. 120
1978Cogniat, Raymond and Antoine Terrasse. Le impressionistes. Geneva, 1978: 127-128, repro.
1979Walter, Rudolphe. "Saint LAzare l'impressioniste." L'Oeil 292 (November 1979): 48-55, repro.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 110, pl. 96, color repro.
1980Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York, 1980: 79, 127, 102, repro.
1981Farwell, Beatrice. Manet and the Nude: A Study in Iconography in the Second Empire. New Yokr, 1981: 160-163, repro.
1982Isaacson, Joel. "Impressionism and Journalistic Illustration." Arts Magazine 56, no. 10 (une 1982): 107, epro.
1982Tucker, Paul Hayes. Monet at Argenteuil. New Haven, 1982: 149, repro.
1983Feaver, William. "What Makes Manet Modern?" Art News (December 1983):55+, repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 454, no. 658, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 243, repro.
1986The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. Exh. cat., The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986:20-21, repro.
1986Gay, Peter. Art and Act: On Causes in History - Manet, Gropius, Mondrian. New York, 1986:104-110, repro.
1986Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York, 1986:102, 129, 212, repro.
1987Rand, Harry. "To the Gare Saint-Lazare." Arts 61, no. 5 (January 1987):52+, repro.
1987Rand, Harry. Manet's Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare. Berkeley, 1987:11
1988Hobbs, Richard, ed. Impressions of French Modernity. Manchester and New York, 1988: 51-53, repro.
1988Reff, Theodore. "Manet and the Paris of His Time," in Kunst um 1800 und die Folgen: Werner Hofmann zu Ehren. Munich, 1988: 247+, repro.
1989Distel, Anne. Les collectionneurs des impressionistes. Paris, 1989:81, repro.
1991Darragon, Eric. Manet. Paris, 1991: 244-246, repro.
1991Bareau, Juliet Wilson, ed. Manet by himself: paintings, pastels, prints & drawings. London, 1991:repro.
1991Coman, Florence E. and Elizabeth P. Streicher. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1991:10.
1991Cranshaw, Roger and Adrian Lewis. "Manet's 'Le Chemin de Fer; (1872-3): Producing the Art Historical Text." Issues (Journal of the Faculties of Architecture, Art and Design at Polytechnic of East London):2 (Winter 1991-1992):78+, repro.
1992Carr-Gomm, Sarah. Manet. London, 1992: 100, repro.
1992Stevenson, Lesley. Manet. New York, 1992: 155, repro.
1992Malerie des Impressionismus 1860-1920. 2 vols. Cologne, 1992:I:95, repro.
1992Weisbrg, Gabriel P. Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse. New York, 1992: 13, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 192, repro.
1993Manoeuvre, Laurent. Manet-Paris. Paris, 1993:56, repro.
1993Perutz, Vivien. Edouard Manet. London, 1993: repro. plate 42.
1994Lemaire, Gerard-Georges. Manet. Milan, 1994:repro. 25.
1994Kranzfelder. Edward Hopper 1882-1967: Vision der Wirklichkeit. Cologne, 1994: 67, repro.
1994Rubin, James H. Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets. Cambridge, 1994:79, repro.
1995Esterow, Milton. "Did You Ever See Anything More Beautiful?" Art News 94 (November 1995): 264.
1995Meixner, Laura L. French REalist Painting and the Critique of American Society 1865-1900. Cambridge, 1995: 197, repro.
1996Galassi, Peter. Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Early Work. New York, 1996:repro.
1996Rathbone, Eliza E., et. al. Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Washington, 1996: 25, repro.
1997Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York, 1997: no. 90, repro.
1998El Impresionismo: la visión original. Madrid, 1997: repro.
1998La peinture moderne des impressionnistes aux avant-gardes. Paris, 1998:repro. 104.
1998Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare. Exh. cat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 21.
1998Coignard, Jérôme. "L'impressionnisme à tout vapeur." L'Oeil 493 (Feruary 1998): 37+, repro.
1998Galligan, Gregory. "The Self Picture: Manet, the Mirror, and the Occupation of Realist Painting." ArtB LXXX, no. 1 (March 1998):153-154, repro.
1998Lumpkin, Libby. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters. Las Vegas, 1998: 35-37, repro.
1998Roters, Eberhard. Malerei des 19.Jahrhunderts: Theme und Motive. 2 vols. Cologne, 1998:I:208, repro.
1999Brettell, Richard R. Monet to Moore: the millennium gift of the Sarah Lee Corportation. New Haven, 1999: 137, repro.
1999De Seta, Cesare. Il secolo della borghesia. Turin, 1999:167-169, repro.
1999Loughery, John. "Urban Drama." The Hudson Review LI, no. 4 (Winter 1999):727-729.
1999Lumpkin, Libby, ed. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters. Las Vegas, 1999: 66, repro.
2000Duve, Thierry de. Voici, 100 ans d'art contemporain. Exh. cat., Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels, 2000: 131+, repro.
2000Fried, Michael. Le modernisme de Manet. Paris: 43, repro.
2000Gallati, Barbara Dayer. "William Merritt Chase and the French Connection." Antiques (July 2000): 78, repro.
2000Simpson, Marc. "'Offenbarungen für das Auge': Winslow Homers Milkmaids." Belvedere (2000):56-57.

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