Lecture: Manet, Monet, Caillebotte and The Gare Saint-Lazare from impressionist manet Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 37 min 97 sec ✓ Published: 30-Jul-2016
Description: December 6, 2014nMary Morton, Curator and Head of the Department of French Paintings, National Gallery of ArtnnThe newly built and largest, busiest railway station in Paris, the Gare Saint-Lazare, attracted the attention of three avant-garde painters in the 1870s. Édouard Manet exhibited his enigmatic composition The Railway at the Paris Salon in 1873, in which the presence of the station is suggested by the rail yard glimpsed through the steam of a just-passed engine. At the 1877 Impressionist
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