Edouard Manet
The Railway
187393.3 x 111.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower right: Manet / 1873
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer
Literature
Collection catalogues
Diane Kelder, French impressionists, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New York, 1980, pp. 18-19
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 658
Literature
Paul Hayes Tucker, The impressionists at Argenteuil, Washington, [D.C.]; Hartford, [Conn.], 2000, fig. 18
Sidsel Maria Søndergaard (ed.), Women in Impressionism, Milano, 2006, fig. 127
Colin B. Bailey, Renoir, impressionism, and full-length painting, New York; New Haven, 2012, p. 97, fig. 14
Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp (eds.), Impressionism, Munich; London; New York, 2017, p. 64 fig. 1
Provenance
From the artist to Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914), Paris
sold c. 1881 to Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris and New York
sold 1898 to Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847-1907) and his wife, née Louisine Waldron Elder (1865-1929), New York
by inheritance to their son, Horace Havemeyer (1886-1956), New York
bequest 1956 to NGA
Other works by Edouard Manet
The Balcony
c. 1868-69
c. 1868-69
Madame Manet at Bellevue
1880
1880
Young Woman Reclining, in Spanish Costume
1862-63
1862-63
Berthe Morisot with a Fan
1872
1872
The Funeral
c. 1867
c. 1867