Line in Front of the Butcher Shop (Queue devant la boucherie)
Edouard Manet
1870
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 16.9 × 14.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.) plate: 23.7 × 16 cm (9 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 53 × 35 cm (20 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.100
About the Artist
Edouard Manet · 1832–1883
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter who played a pivotal role in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, often called the 'Father of Modern Art.' Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Manet defied his father's wishes for a legal career to pursue painting, studying under academic artist Thomas Couture. His revolutionary works 'Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe' and 'Olympia' (both 1863) scand...