Fish (Still Life)
1864
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.5 × 92.4 cm (28 15/16 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 108.6 × 127.4 × 12.7 cm (42 3/4 × 50 1/8 × 5 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44892
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Although still-life ensembles were an important element in many of the major paintings of the avant-garde artist Édouard Manet, his most sustained interest in the genre itself was from 1864 to 1865, when Fish was painted. Manet’s focus on still lifes coincided with the gradual reacceptance of the genre during the nineteenth century, due in part to the growth of the middle class, whose tastes ran to intimate, moderately priced works. This painting, like many of Manet’s still-life compositions, re...